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Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

N9NU — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:29:52 GMT

I upgraded my Asus Zephyrus M16 GU604HE laptops wifi card [AX211] with a new BE200 M2 module and cannot seem to get it up and running. Here is some info:

0000:37:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775*/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2 (rev 1a)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation BE200 320MHz [Gale Peak]

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, IOMMU group 17

Memory at 60300000 (64-bit,refetchable) [size=16K]

Capabilities: <access denied>

Kernel modules: iwlwifi

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INFO FROM DMESG

[4.776357] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 4.778658] cs35l41-hda spi0-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.0: Using extra _DSD properties, bypassing _DSD in ACPI
[ 4.780524] AVX2 version of gcm_enc/dec engaged.
[ 4.781086] AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled
[ 4.782562] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 4.786250] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x2001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 4.786258] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
[ 4.786481] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86.ucode (-2)
[ 4.786717] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-80
[ 4.786727] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86
[ 4.786738] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

I found some of the updated files at the git site however don't appear to be any that are installable via a binary command.

Any ideas?

Tim

ARS N9NU

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

Josep1 — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 05:44:42 GMT

Hello, Tim,

I am a Debian user like you and with the same WiFi card, Intel BE200.

$ lspci |grep Network 3a:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 272b (rev 1a)

I got it up and running.

The point is the dmesg message "firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86.ucode (-2)".

You need to add firmware files under the /lib/firmware system tree:

- Open the git kernel firmware tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/

(content of this tree corresponds to your Debian /lib/firmware folder).

- Download ucode files that begin with iwlwifi-gl, i.e.:

- Copy those files into the /lib/modules folder (you have to be root to do that).

- Optionally, if you need to get Bluetooth up and running, download the two ibt-0291-0291* files (.ddc and .sfi) from /intel subfolder and place them in your /lib/firmware/intel folder:

- Finally, reboot system (although I think you just would need to reload Linux kernel driver).

Another interesting option when one has latest hardware and Linux is using latest kernel, more updated than the distribution offered one. To do this, now I am using Linux Zabbly. There is an installable repository to upgrade system from there (instructions).

Just today, I am using:

$ uname -a Linux debian 6.9.7-zabbly+ #debian12 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jun 28 19:34:34 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am expecting some day to get an upgraded kernel driver to achieve high speeds as, for now and from Linux, I can only connect to 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz networks. I have not tested card under any Windows environment.

Good luck!

Regards,

Josep

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

Josep1 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:44:55 GMT

Hello,

I wrote "/lib/modules" but it should be "/lib/firmware".

Josep

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

NTGU — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 05:31:43 GMT

I upgraded my DELL Latitude 3410 Laptops WIFI card [AX201] with a new BE200 M2 module and cannot seem to get it up and running. Here is some info:

INFO FROM DMESG

[ 12.048667] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 12.048889] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 12.053410] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x1001910, cnv-id 0x1001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 12.053585] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f0, rev=0x471, rfid=0x112100
[ 12.053589] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
[ 12.055241] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055269] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-91.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055291] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-90.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055293] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[ 12.055296] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-90
[ 12.055297] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92
[ 12.055299] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

I could no find the updated files at the git site however don't appear to be any that are installable via a binary command.

Any ideas?

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

xShub — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:28:30 GMT

Hello @NTGU ,

I have your very same board, same PCI dev 272b/00f0, which needs a firmware named iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-9x.ucode:

@NTGU wrote:
[ 12.053410] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x1001910, cnv-id 0x1001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 12.053585] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f0, rev=0x471, rfid=0x112100
[ 12.053589] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
[ 12.055241] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055269] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-91.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055291] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-90.ucode failed with error -2Any ideas?

If you scroll up this thread, you will notice that @N9NU has a slightly different model, PCI dev 272b/00f4, which needs a different firmware, named like iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-xx:

@N9NU wrote:
[ 4.786258] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
[ 4.786481] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86.ucode (-2)
[ 4.786717] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-80
[ 4.786727] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86

Long story short, it seems there are different (sub)versions of this wireless card, and that the gl-b0 firmware is nowhere to be found.

In the iwlwifi sources the firmware name is mentioned, though.

As of now, no idea to how to get around this.

Cheers
Teo

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

xShub — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:06:04 GMT

Hello @NTGU ,

I have your very same board, same PCI dev 272b/00f0, which needs a firmware named iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-9x.ucode:

@NTGU wrote:
[ 12.053410] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x1001910, cnv-id 0x1001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 12.053585] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f0, rev=0x471, rfid=0x112100
[ 12.053589] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
[ 12.055241] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055269] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-91.ucode failed with error -2
[ 12.055291] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-90.ucode failed with error -2Any ideas?

If you scroll up this thread, you will notice that @N9NU has a slightly different model, PCI dev 272b/00f4, which needs a different firmware, named like iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-xx:

@N9NU wrote:
[ 4.786258] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
[ 4.786481] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86.ucode (-2)
[ 4.786717] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-80
[ 4.786727] iwlwifi 0000:37:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-86

Cheers
Teo

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

HarishaJA — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:48:15 GMT

Can someone please help with below similar error.

[ 3.255833] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 3.286633] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x1001910, cnv-id 0x1001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 3.286856] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f0, rev=0x471, rfid=0x112100
[ 3.286860] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
[ 3.288365] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-96.ucode failed with error -2
[ 3.288592] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-95.ucode failed with error -2
[ 3.289112] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-94.ucode failed with error -2
[ 3.289156] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-93.ucode failed with error -2
[ 3.289304] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92.ucode failed with error -2
[ 3.289309] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[ 3.289313] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-92
[ 3.289316] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-96
[ 3.289318] iwlwifi 0000:71:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
dellLatitude-5420:~/Linux-Firmware-for-BE200$ uname -a
Linux dell-Latitude-5420 6.14.4-061404-generic #202504251003 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Apr 25 12:15:31 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Intel BE200 drivers for Debian Linux (Sid/Testing)

tom123456 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:35:29 GMT

I have the same problem, with the be200 wifi 7 chip, iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0

There is no driver/firmware for this, for linux.

This page states that there is driver support for Linux, but that's not true.

https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/download/824804/intel-wireless-wi-fi-drivers-for-linux.html

Is there a firmware on the way, or is it not?

Does anyone here know anything about this?

[ 11.958272] [ T515] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x1001910, cnv-id 0x1001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 11.958352] [ T515] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f0, rev=0x471, rfid=0x112100
[ 11.958359] [ T515] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
[ 11.958581] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-102.ucode failed with error -2
[ 11.958646] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-101.ucode failed with error -2
[ 11.958695] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-100.ucode failed with error -2
[ 11.958743] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-99.ucode failed with error -2
[ 11.958790] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-98.ucode failed with error -2
[ 11.958796] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[ 11.958803] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-98
[ 11.958808] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-gl-b0-fm-b0-102
[ 11.958812] [ T46] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git