Getting around the new software was clunky, but I could see all that clunkiness going away in the coming months of using it over and over. Going to all their websites, logging in to get the latest versions, and retrieve my codes (thanks iCloud for saving all that stuff for me) with no problems, I finally fired up LUNA.
So after an eternity of shipping (during a pandemic), the WiFi card arrived and I installed the new macOS and began fresh installs of all my software and putting all the registrations in place. High Sierra was okay with the new video card, so I ran with that while I waited. Buying something from China in April when they were just blamed in March for a global pandemic seemed sort of ludicrous, but I’m an American, and I want what I want the fastest way I can get it not caring how that is accomplished in the end as long as I get what I want. Amazon and Newegg didn’t have them, but I was able to order this particular WiFi card through Newegg because there was stock in China. So searching TonyMac and Googling Hackintosh in general, revealed that my WiFi card didn’t work with the new macOSes.
SO I thought maybe there was something like this for Catalina and Mojave, so I did a Mojave install, but the same result, no network. When I went to the Slate Ravens, I no longer had to worry about that – well, I covered this already.
Thinking back, I did NOT upgrade to High Sierra from Sierra cause my 43″ TV couldn’t be used as a 4K monitor for some reason – the option that made it work on Sierra was not available in High Sierra, so that’s why I never upgraded. The new video card worked great the installation seemed to go okay, I just couldn’t connect to my network.
This is usually with your Hackintosh doing whatever it’s doing while you’re on your MacBook Pro surfing TonyMac‘s site making sure you’re doing everything right and searching for answers with whatever questions you may have. As with most Hackintosh installs, there are things here and there that either set you back or realized you wanted differently, so this could result in several attempts at the same thing. So somewhere between April 6th and April 16th 2020, I Carbon Copy Cloned my running High Sierra system and started on with the Catalina installation.
I had purchased a Radeon Pulse RX 580 on June 21st, 2019 for when I decided to make the leap to Mojave (as Nvidia was no longer supported) so I figured I’d skip over Mojave and go straight to Catalina. I was running High Sierra – and if I recall, LUNA did run on that, but I can’t remember if I had some sort of issue, or if I just figured I must be at the OS LUNA wanted. It required macOS Mojave or better (which at the time was only Catalina). So, as soon as I got the announcement email, I downloaded LUNA. I ordered it April 16th from Newegg.Com because 9 days earlier, the world saw this:Įver since the announcement at the most recent NAMM, I couldn’t wait for LUNA!įinally, I would be rid of Avid and all the idiosyncrasies that came with running Pro Tools as my main DAW. It was a very specific WiFi card that I needed – and had made its way all the way from Shanghai, China. wcap file is saved to the diagnostics report location on your Mac.May 23rd, 2020: Harry, my cat, slept through the delivery I had been waiting for for what seemed like an eternity. Select a channel and width, then click Start to begin capturing traffic on that channel.
Logs enables background logging for Wi-Fi and other system components.Info gathers key details about your current network connections.Open them from the Window menu in the Wireless Diagnostics menu bar: Wireless Diagnostics includes additional utilities for network specialists.