Supported/Unsupported Chipsets

With macOS, there's a limited amount of supported hardware regardless of which category, and wireless cards are no different.

Supported chipsets

Big Sur (11) and Monterey (12) and older

• BCM943602
• BCM94360
• BCM94352
• BCM94350

Catalina (10.15) and older

• BCM943224
• BCM94331
  • May require you to force load IO80211Family.kext when running macOS Catalina; see Kernel -> Force in OpenCore for more details
• All those mentioned in Big Sur are also supported in Catalina

Mojave (10.14) and older

• BCM94322
• All those mentioned in Catalina and newer are also supported in Mojave

High Sierra (10.13) and older

• AR242x
• AR542x
• AR5416
• AR5418
• AR9280 - AR5BHB92
• AR9285 - AR5B95
• AR9287 - AR5B97
• AR9380 - AR5BXB112
• All those mentioned in Mojave and newer are also supported in High Sierra

El Capitan (10.11) and older

• BCM4311
• BCM4318
• BCM4306
• BCM4309
• BCM4321
• BCM4322
• All those mentioned in High Sierra and newer are also supported in El Capitan

Unsupported Chipsets

Broadcom

• BCM4312
• BCM4313
• BCM4356
• BCM43142
• BCM43228

Atheros

• AR5424

Intel

Currently no Intel chipsets are officially supported in macOS, however great work has been done in this space with itlwm: Where's my Intel Wi-Fi?: