Availability of firmware for the BE201 combo connectivity card

[chimac]

As of me writing this ticket, there seems to be no firmware available for the BE201 connectivity card.

I've looked in both firmware/linux-firmware and iwlwifi/linux-firmware, branch "for-upstream" and the only firmware available for this series of cards ("Bz") is for the BE202 ("Bz-b0") and BE200 ("Gl-c0"), nothing exists for BE201 ("gl-a0"). This firmware is required for the Linux support mentioned on the Ark specification page.

[shivang25]

+1 on this. I am waiting for some update on this too.

Actually, for me, it shows the following through the kernel dmesg (ASUS laptop running Ubuntu 24.04, Linux 6.8 with Intel BE201 chipset):

[    2.800408] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    2.814655] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x1080900 wfpm id 0x80005b20
[    2.814662] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev a840/00e4, rev=0x460, rfid=0x20112200
[    2.815788] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-86.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.815800] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-85.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.815811] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-84.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.815820] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-83.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.815829] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-82.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.816339] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-81.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.816349] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-80.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.816350] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: no suitable firmware found!
[    2.816805] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: minimum version required: iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-80
[    2.817311] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-86

So, it says that it requires the iwlwifi-bz-a0-fm-c0-* firmware rather than the gl-a0 firmware.

[Dudii43]

Exactly same problem here regarding iwlwifi min/max version needed.

Running Dell XPS 13 (9350) on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, with Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 258V × 8, and B201 chipset