topic Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692 in Wireless

Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

ifaigios — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:22:35 GMT

The Intel WiFi module present on the ASrock Z890M Riptide WiFi motherboard, named Killer Wi-Fi 6E AX1690i 160MHz (411NGW), with devid 7f70 and subdid 1692 is not recognized by mainline Linux iwlwifi, throwing the following errors in dmesg:

iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 7f70/1692
iwlwifi: probe of 0000:00:14.3 failed with error -22

I tested with Linux 6.13 and 6.14, and support seems to be missing in both versions.

Editing the drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c file to add the necessary support fixed the problem. I attach the related patch.

Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

AlHill — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:30:15 GMT

How can it be missing when linux is not supported by this board?

https://pg.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z890M%20Riptide%20WiFi/index.asp#Specification

https://pg.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z890M%20Riptide%20WiFi/index.asp#Download

Specifically:

OS
- Microsoft Windows® 11 64-bit

Talk to your linux distro for support.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[W10 is this generation's XP]

Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

ifaigios — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:38:13 GMT

The board specifically does not provide Linux support, but the module is in fact detachable. It is not actually part of the motherboard.

And Intel already provides Linux support for other variants of the same WiFi module, which is why a 1-line patch is enough to enable it. It just seems to have been missed to be included as a valid module variant in the related file.

Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

AlHill — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:12:31 GMT

And, did you specifically complain to asrock about this lack of support? It is their board, not Intel's.

It seems counterproductive if you already knew the board did not support Linux, and yet you decided to come to Intel and complain anyway.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[W10 is this generation's XP]

Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

ifaigios — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:46:01 GMT

The module is manufactured by Intel, not Asrock. It simply happens to be included in my motherboard package.

Also I did not complain about anything: as I wrote in my original message I already have my module up and running with a trivial fix, because I know programming. I simply wanted to help other users of this *Intel* module, regardless of where they got it from. Almost every other Intel WiFi module has upstream Linux support, it is just that this specific device ID seems to be missing from the valid modules file. This seems like an Intel problem to me.

Finally, what is this attitude sir? What a terrible way to respond to purchasers and users of your products. Please escalate this to a developer who can take care of this issue.

Re: Missing Linux support for Intel WiFi module 7f70:1692

ifaigios — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:49:42 GMT

Alternatively, please point out a way for me to contact the maintainers of the intel-wireless tree in the Linux kernel. I tried the kernel bugzilla but they don't seem to be paying attention to that.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219926