Support of Intel AX200 WiFi card

    Quote from mglae

    dipswitch Answer is there, it's no firmware issue.

    Thank you. I try to understand: the dwmac-intel module will make both my ec1000s nic and ax200 wireless work? They share the same underlying "problem"?

    When i installed this minipc with win10 i noticed it took a LOT of extra intel drivers (aprox 500mbyte of drivers for windows) to make it all work. A lot of extra intel devices in device manager, most of which i'm not certain what they do. And most are by default not recognised by win10, they all need extra drivers and firmware. I was surprised (in a positive way) that i was able to boot LE at all on this minipc, with all these unknown intel devices . Are all modern intel based minipc's like this, or is it just this one? I'm more used to older hardware.

    dipswitch Sorry regarding AX200 I only looked for firmware errors and there are none.

    The good news: in LE 13 the AX200 is working fine:

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    Oct 15 16:48:26.567299 DigitalEngine kernel: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Oct 15 16:48:26.567357 DigitalEngine kernel: iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Oct 15 16:48:26.567546 DigitalEngine kernel: iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x3617, cnv-id 0x100530 wfpm id 0x80000000
Oct 15 16:48:26.567707 DigitalEngine kernel: iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: PCI dev 2723/0084, rev=0x340, rfid=0x10a100
Oct 15 16:48:26.567843 DigitalEngine kernel: iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz

    But in LE12:

    Error -110 can be caused by power on issue, you can try this fix. The file name is /storage/.config/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf in LE.

    I booted the same nightly as yesterday and indeed, it seems the wireless ax200 card is detected. But as soon as i make it connect, LE crashes, the libreelec bootscreen reappears and after a while the gui shows.

    I hope i was able to pull the corresponding logs: https://paste.libreelec.tv/magnetic-krill.log


    -edit: i rebooted the minipc and it now is able to connect to wirelesss. Don't know why the pc crashed at first try. Will test this some more.

    Quote from Da Flex

    If BIOS/EFI and all Windows drivers are up-to-date, then your firmware, used by LE, is up-to-date, too.

    Maybe that step is needed to get reliable results.

    I misunderstood, i thought you meant the firmware for the ax200 card. The efi is on it's latest version, as are all windows drivers.

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    In the latest nightly, the ax200 seems to work pretty good. For those who may need it: the bluetooth part of the card isn't working. LE doesn't detect a bluetooth adapter. This doesnt affect me, since i don't use bluetooth devices. But for those who do please be aware that this maybe needs fixing.

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    Yes, looks like the behavior is not stable.

    It may depend on cold or warm boot. Or even on reboot which OS was booted before.

    You can test if disabling "Fast Boot" in EFI firmware (when available and enabled) may improve behavior.