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No wifi support on Ubuntu20.04 with AX211

Bingqian
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Hi, I just bought a new laptop with wifi-6e AX211 and have installed Ubuntu20.04 on it. But there's no wifi support so I guess there are problems with the wifi driver.

So I download https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-ty-59.601f3a66.0.tgz manually and use

sudo cp iwlwifi*.ucode /lib/firmware

to install the driver and reboot my machine. But it doesn't work.

Then I use

dmesg | grep wifi

 to check the driver, and it shows

[    2.171128] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    2.180521] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-63.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180607] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-62.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180620] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-61.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180695] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-60.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180707] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-59.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180716] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-58.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180791] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-57.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180802] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-56.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180812] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-55.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180822] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-54.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180832] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-53.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180842] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-52.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180852] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-51.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180862] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-50.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180873] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-49.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180883] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-48.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180893] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-47.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180902] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-46.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180912] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-45.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180923] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-44.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180932] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-43.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180940] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-42.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180949] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-41.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180957] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-40.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180965] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-39.ucode failed with error -2
[    2.180967] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: no suitable firmware found!
[    2.180969] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: minimum version required: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-39
[    2.180970] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-63
[    2.180971] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

It confuses me because the driver file should be iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-59.ucode but all it is loading is iwlwifi-so*.ucode file rather than iwlwifi-ty*.ucode.

I wonder why is that and how can I solve the wifi problem?

Thanks a lot

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