AX211 Bluetooth & WiFi on Linux

[Extravaganza]

Does Intel provide drivers for AX211 on linux system ?

The linux OS configuration:
Debian 12.2.0-14
Kernel 6.6.11-4

Intel hardware:
Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, REV=0x430

The following errors are reported by OS during start up:

i2c i2c-2: Failed to register i2c client ITE8853:00 at 0x4e (-16)
Serial bus multi instantiate pseudo device driver INT3515:00: err or -ENXIO: IRQ Index 1 not found

Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
iwlwifi WRT: Invalid buffer destination

Thank you in advance for your commitment

[Alberto_R_Intel]

Extravaganza, Thank you for posting in the Intel® Communities Support.

We will be more than glad to assist you with this matter. 

In reference to your question, in the following link, you will find all the details about "Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters":

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/wireless.html

Any questions, please let me know.

Regards,

Albert R.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Elodie]

Hello Alberto!

I have a similar problem. Thanks for the information. However, the link you give points to a page

that doesn't provide an easy link to the driver. There is a firmware git tree, and I looked at it.

I get something that looks like a 500 lines directory.

- There is not even a single line with a loose correlation with "AX211" or even 6E

- As there is an intel subfolder, I checked it, same story.

Don't know if it's just me, but your reply doesn't help me at all. 

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@Alberto_R_Intel wrote:

Any questions, please let me know.

Let's get straight to the point. I'm also using a PC board with an Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 module.

- Where is the driver? I would appreciate a link to the driver, not to the whole git tree.

If not possible (because it may change periodically) then the accurate name of the driver itself,

with possibly stars instead of the version numbers.

Thanks,

Elodie.

[benisonbesra]

I am too facing the same problem.

- Intel does not have Linux driver for "Intel Wi-Fi 6E Ax211 160Mhz" as on 2024.May.02.

- Nor a documentation/Instruction to sign-in the module for secure-boot (in case you are using secure-boot).

- Have to wait to the Intel developers to write Linux driver for "Intel Wi-Fi 6E Ax211 160Mhz"

- Latest driver that Intel has is is for "Intel Wi-Fi 6E Ax210 160Mhz" for Kernels 5.10.+

[frodzdev]

Any updates? I'm having the same issue. Linux is asking for:

Min version: iwlwifi-ma-a0-gf-a0-39

Max version: iwlwifi-ma-a0-gf-a0-72

But none can be found on the linux firmware repo. The product page says Linux is supported

[FortuiteMan]

Any update ??

Same issue here.

Thank you

[frodzdev]

Sorry for the late response.

I got it all to work with the 6.9 vanilla kernel.

For Xorg I had to add this manually to a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "intel"
	MatchDriver "i915"
	Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

[benisonbesra]

I tries older drivers from Intel's site mentioned above. But non worked.

So I reinstalled the OS now everything works. Ubuntu 20.04.6 has some drive that comes with OS, they works fine. 

If you some how update or by any means uninstall and reinstall the network-namager and try to reinstall the Intel Wifi. You will have this issue. At least I fell into this problem this way. 

You could either work with Ethernet for time being, and wait for Intel to release driver for Intel hardware: Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz. 

Or go for a Fresh Install of OS. (This is really time taking process & and restore data & re configure all frameworks for ongoing projects)

[gatonero]

WiFi no problem here, but bluetooth.