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amoeb

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Registered: 2025-10-20

Posts: 3

{SOLVED} Intel AX201 wifi unavailable on startup

Hi,

I have been using Arch as a daily driver for 2-3 years now without issues that a quick look thru the forum couldn't be solved.

I really hope I am not duplicating a thread but this is the closest I could find to my issue : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297679 (hence I will attach similar details as requested in that thread)

If I unload imlvm and iwlwifi and load them right after wifi works fine. I think the issue started when I upgraded system to linux kernal  6.17.3-arch2-1  but I have no clue and tbh downgrading linux package seems a bit scary and I would prefer to avoid it unless necessery (forum rules do require me to update to newest prior to posting either way).

I tried reading logs from networkManager service and iwd etc but there is no mention of any error. So its beyond the layer I am familiar troubleshooting.

$ lsmod | grep iwlwifi

iwlwifi               610304  1 iwlmvm
cfg80211             1421312  3 iwlmvm,iwlwifi,mac80211

#lspci -v

00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 30)
    DeviceName: WLAN
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0074
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19, IOMMU group 10
    Memory at 603f19c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Everything isup to date and I would really appreaciate some advice

Last edited by amoeb (2025-10-20 13:27:54)

amoeb

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Registered: 2025-10-20

Posts: 3

Re: {SOLVED} Intel AX201 wifi unavailable on startup

Hi,

I have been using Arch as a daily driver for 2-3 years now without issues that a quick look thru the forum couldn't be solved.

I really hope I am not duplicating a thread but this is the closest I could find to my issue : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297679 (hence I will attach similar details as requested in that thread)

If I unload imlvm and iwlwifi and load them right after wifi works fine. I think the issue started when I upgraded system to linux kernal  6.17.3-arch2-1  but I have no clue and tbh downgrading linux kernel seems a bit scary and I would prefer to avoid it unless necessery (forum rules do require me to update to newest prior to posting either way also when I am  booting from fallback option its still the same)

I tried reading logs from networkManager service and iwd etc but there is no mention of any error. So its beyond the layer I am familiar troubleshooting.

$ lsmod | grep iwlwifi

iwlwifi               610304  1 iwlmvm
cfg80211             1421312  3 iwlmvm,iwlwifi,mac80211

#lspci -v

00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 30)
    DeviceName: WLAN
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0074
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19, IOMMU group 10
    Memory at 603f19c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Everything isup to date and I would really appreaciate some advice

amoeb

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Registered: 2025-10-20

Posts: 3

Re: {SOLVED} Intel AX201 wifi unavailable on startup

Marking as solved I had a look on few other  recent threads and found how to read boot logs which led me to find this old post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297679

this command is a blessing "sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st"

removing the modules from /etc/mknitctpio.conf and runing  mkinitcpio - p solved the issue (I think I had those listed there since install so still not 100% sure what was the difference)

I spent few days trying to figure this out