Barry K. Nathan

This may seem like a strange question, but do brightness control or sound work? (This will help me determine where the problem is.)

> I have Macbook pro early 2011 and installing latest version and not Beta What screen size (13", 15", or 17")? The 15"/17" have considerably different hardware from the 13",...

> My screen size is standard 13 Thank you. Is this a fresh installation, an upgrade from a Big Sur beta, or an upgrade from a previous version of macOS?...

> the patch is not making any changes - any other suggetions What patcher did you use to install Catalina?

Also, if you could include a screenshot or photo of the Terminal window after `patch-kexts.sh` finishes running, that would be very very helpful!

Whoa. That was not at all what I was expecting, and I should've asked for those screenshots much earlier. Sorry about that. (I'm in the process of writing a more...

Since you did an upgrade, hopefully you still have the patcher on your system. Try running it again to re-patch the USB drive (and provide a screenshot of the Terminal...

> Because lack of internet I can not run the patcher as it needs internet access to operate (I tried and it fails) and suggestion to create the usb offline?...

 This is what I see at my end. (Your previous screenshots came through properly, however. I think, when you're adding a screenshot...

Oh, that's Patched Sur (by @BenSova), not my Big Sur Micropatcher. I haven't had a chance to try Patched Sur myself yet, so I'm not familiar enough with it to...