How to use Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i in Fossapup64?

[CpRivers]

I installed Fossapup64 and I am trying to get the Wi-Fi to work. The system information shows the Intel card but the Wi-Fi connection utilities don't. Is there a module that can be loaded for this card? Previous searching said that I need at least kernel 5.2, and this one is 5.4.53. I loaded iwlwifi but that didn't show up any interfaces.

Thanks,

Chuck

[TerryH]

The issue you are most probably facing is although the wifi chip has been included in the iwlwifi driver since 5.2.x, the firmware that the kernel is searching for is not yet included in fossapup64 (and probably many other linux distros). There doesn't appear to be any wifi firmware for 'wifi AX' yet.

I'm guessing here but you probably have Intel wifi6 AX201 chipset (which was first included in 5.2.x). In the following link, scroll down until you see the entry for the above chipset. There are instructions on the page just below this entry on how to load this firmware. The linux firmware is located in /lib/firmware. You will need to reboot and save, after loading the firmware.

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rs/iwlwifi

Note: these instructions are only valid if the wifi chip is Intel AX201.

[ozsouth]

@CpRivers - TerryH is right - firmware is needed with iwlwifi & his assessment of the required file is sound logic.
To check what firmware any Puppy system is missing, in a terminal, run:
dmesg | grep irmware

[CpRivers]

Thanks guys! I'll try to install the firmware tomorrow.

[rockedge]

@ozsouth

dmesg | grep irmware

when I run the command on a Bionic64 outfitted with a real time kernel 4.19.82-rt30 I get this:

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root-# dmesg | grep irmware
[    0.093114] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls
[    0.642930] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

is that what part of we are looking for?

[ozsouth]

@Rockedge - yes - if you have missing firmware, that will be listed too.

[TerryH]

Also with that card, it will probably also have bluetooth. The dmesg inquiry will also show missing bluetooth firmware. If @CpRivers wants working bluetooth, they will need to identify and manually load the required bluetooth firmware, which would be placed in /lib/firmware/intel