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Can AX210 shut down my Ubuntu computer?

JayBee01
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Hello. I have many problems with AX210 since I installed it. I have Intel gen 5 computer with Ubuntu 24.04 and kernel 6.8

From logs I have seen that AX210 was crashing firmware every 3 minutes. I had to test lowering firmware that kernel loads. I had to go down from version 86 to version 66. V66 is the last one that does not cause firmware crash every 3 minutes.

For some reason, AX210 fw crash also caused my trackpad stop working, I had to reload it as kernel module to get it working for next 3 minutes.

That is solved by lowering firmware to 66. However, there is more serious problem:

When I start CPU intensive task that uses lots of WiFi (backups, rsync..), the computer suddenly shuts down. It looked pretty much like CPU overheat, because there were no logs. But I observed that shutdowns only happen during intensive wifi transfers.

I suspect there are some buffering problems, that cause AX210 to overheat and it shuts down whole computer.

I also tried different combinations of "options iwlwifi amsdu_size" from 0 to 4, but it did not help. I am still getting following error messages, but with ver.66 only after boot or wifi logon/logout, not every 3 minutes like with higher versions:
[Po zář 30 15:45:13 2024] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x0.
[Po zář 30 15:45:13 2024] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
[Po zář 30 15:45:13 2024] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Transport status: 0x0000004B, valid: 6
[Po zář 30 15:45:13 2024] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 66.f1c864e0.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-66.ucode

 

Any advice?

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JayBee01
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The only workaround I found is to throttle CPU to 400MHz during high intensity WiFi transfers.

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