BrendanaScotty/Black80211-Catalina

Control itlwm using AirPort menu

This project joins https://github.com/AppleIntelWifi/Black80211-Catalina and https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/itlwm to provide a wireless driver for Intel adapters that can be controlled using native menu item.

The driver is recognized by the system as a Wi-Fi adapter, not an Ethernet adapter:

The following actions already work:

• Turning Wi-Fi off and on
• Scanning networks (this also allows Location Services to detect location)

• Connecting to Open, WEP Open System, WPA2 Personal and WPA2 Enterprise networks

The following authentication types are not supported:

• WEP Shared Key
• WPA3
• OWE

The following has not been tested:

• First-generation WPA Personal and WPA Enterprise

itlwm should be used from https://github.com/usr-sse2/itlwm

macOS Catalina and Big Sur are supported.

How to load manually:

put Black80211.kext and itlwm.kext in the same folder

sudo chown -R root:wheel *.kext
sudo chmod -R 755 *.kext
sudo kextutil itlwm.kext
sudo kextutil Black80211.kext

How to load on boot:

• (Recommended) the kexts can be injected with this OpenCore 0.6.1. SecureBoot should be enabled to load the immutablekernel which always contains IO80211Family.kext;
• (Not recommended) the kexts can be installed to /Library/Extensions with System Integrity Protection disabled;
• only in the installer or Recovery the kexts can be injected with regular OpenCore or Clover, because macOS excludes IO80211Family from the prelinkedkernel when there are no wireless devices with drivers in system locations.