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I'm having problem with my newly installed AX211NGW.
I replaced a AX201NGW that was working, but I wanted to have 6Ghz too. So I bought this new card from Amazon. I have an HP probook 450 G8.
After I replaced the card the Wi-Fi is not recognized correctly by the system.
1) lspci still shows ONLY a AX201, but I'm sure I removed it. This can be related to HP? Could also be "not a problem", i just find it strange.
2) The iwlwifi kernel driver search for a firmware that does not exist (yet?)
payne@payne-lap:~$ sudo dmesg | fgrep iwlwifi
[ 2.445245] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 2.450382] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x11219, cnv-id 0x20000302 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 2.450403] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev a0f0/0094, rev=0x351, rfid=0x2010d000
[ 2.450406] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz
[ 2.450652] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2.450657] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: no suitable firmware found!
[ 2.450658] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-gf-a0-77 is required
[ 2.450660] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git I searched here, but can't find any trace of that firmware, even if there are with very similar names:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … el/iwlwifi
Also searching on google i found no reference to that filename.
3) I tried booting on windows and even there it can't find the drivers, bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
4) Intel does say this card should be supported by my kernel:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en … linux.html
5) Could it be a scam from the vendor or the card is just too new? The fact that shows AX201 on lspci is suspicius to me. On the label it says AX211.
Any suggestion on what I could try next?
Last edited by ThePayne (2025-09-03 10:25:38)
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Please post the full output of `lspci -nnk`.
Last edited by loqs (2025-09-03 14:08:25)
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Hello!
this is the lspic -nnk output with the new card:
payne@payne-lap:~$ sudo lspci -nnk
[sudo] password for payne:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-UP3/H35 4 cores Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:9a14] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel modules: igen6_edac
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01)
DeviceName: Onboard IGD
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915, xe
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant [8086:9a03] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver [8086:9a0d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: intel_vsec
Kernel modules: intel_vsec
00:0d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [8086:9a13] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller [8086:9a0b]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: vmd
Kernel modules: vmd
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:a0ed] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM [8086:a0ef] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 [8086:a0f0] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0094]
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:a0e8] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface [8086:a0e0] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:a0b0] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller [8086:a082] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller [8086:a0a3] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller [8086:a0a4] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: intel-spi
Kernel modules: spi_intel_pci
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (13) I219-V [8086:15fc] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8808]
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series [8086:f1a8] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:390d]
Kernel driver in use: nvme
Kernel modules: nvmeWith the old card differs only for the numbers and driver loaded:
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 [8086:a0f0] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0074]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifiMy kernel:
payne@payne-lap:~$ uname -a
Linux payne-lap 6.16.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:49:53 +0000 x86_64 GNU/LinuxOffline
I also found this post thanks to Gemini, that tells that the card is not compatible with my 11th generation CPU:
https://community.frame.work/t/solved-a … ly/26907/5
My CPU:
payne@payne-lap:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | fgrep "model name"
model name : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHzWhile ChatGPT keeps telling me that the card is 100% compatible, and it is a firmware problem:
✅ Your 11th gen Intel CPU is compatible with AX211
❌ Your actual problem is software (firmware), not hardware.
I also updated the laptop BIOS to the latest 1.21 version, but no change.
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I returned the AX211 card and bought an Intel BE200. It works out of the box.
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775*/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2 (rev 1a)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation BE200 320MHz [Gale Peak]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at 54100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [148] Secondary PCI Express
Capabilities: [158] Physical Layer 16.0 GT/s
Capabilities: [17c] Lane Margining at the Receiver
Capabilities: [188] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [190] L1 PM Substates
Capabilities: [1a0] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0002 Rev=4 Len=100 <?>
Capabilities: [2a0] Data Link Feature <?>
Capabilities: [2ac] Precision Time Measurement
Capabilities: [2b8] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0003 Rev=1 Len=054 <?>
Capabilities: [500] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0023 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi* ChatGPT suggested the AX211 and not the BE200 since the slot is CNVio2 and "not compatible" with PCIe
* Gemini suggested the BE200 and not the AX211 for "maximum compatibility" with the PCIe+USB slot and 11th Generation Intel CPU
I guess Gemini wins this time.
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