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Edit The answer provided by chili555 solved the issue and the wifi adapter now works

I'm trying to get Wifi working on an Intel NUC 13 with a Wi-Fi 6E AX1690i, 802.11ax card but it doesn't seem to be recognised. I've tried upgrading to kernel 6.2.0 with no luck.

~sudo dmesg | grep iw
[    3.014195] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.016297] iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 7af0/1692, rev=0x430, rfid=0x3010d000
[    3.016317] iwlwifi: probe of 0000:00:14.3 failed with error -22

~lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7af0] (rev 11)
    Subsystem: Rivet Networks Device [1a56:1692]
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7acc] (rev 11)

~rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Wifi works fine in Windows and it appears the card should be supported. I'm kind of at a loss about what to try next. Any suggestions would be super helpful.

Justin Mifkovich
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Your device is very new and is not yet covered in the current version of the driver iwlwifi. I suggest that we try a highly experimental process.

First, I recommend that you install Ubuntu 22.10 using a default 5.19.0-xx kernel version. Next, with a temporary internet connection by ethernet, tethering or whatever means possible, do:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install backport-iwlwifi-dkms

This takes a few moments, please be patient.

sudo nano -l /usr/src/backport-iwlwifi-9904/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c

At line number 365, change the line:

IWL_DEV_INFO(0x7A70, 0x1692, iwlax411_2ax_cfg_so_gf4_a0, iwl_ax411_killer_1690i_name),

To read:

IWL_DEV_INFO(0x7AF0, 0x1692, iwlax411_2ax_cfg_so_gf4_a0, iwl_ax411_killer_1690i_name),

That is, you will change only 7A70 to 7AF0.

Proofread carefully twice, save (Ctrl+o followed by Enter) and exit (Ctrl+x).

Now remove the old version:

sudo dkms remove backport-iwlwifi/9904

And install the new version:

sudo dkms add backport-iwlwifi/9904
sudo dkms build backport-iwlwifi/9904
sudo dkms install backport-iwlwifi/9904

Reboot and show us:

sudo dmesg | grep iwl

References: Intel AX201 Wi-Fi 6 is not working on Ubuntu 21.04

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/iwlwifi-not-working-in-manjaro-kde-221115-linux519/129578/5

Possibly needed firmware: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf4-a0-72.ucode

chili555
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I just wanted to add to this thread as I was struggling with my wifi. This thread helped me to finally solve my problem.

I have a SimplyNUC Dragon Canyon Pro12. It's now July 2024 and I updated Ubuntu this morning. I'm now at kernel version 6.5.0-41-generic and Ubuntu version 22.04.2. The wifi went out and it was working previously.

My commands were slightly different. The path to the drv.c file was slightly different, so I had to modify the later dkms commands to the right entry. My path was

/usr/src/backport-iwlwifi-9858/....

and thus I had to use

dkms remove backport-iwlwifi/9858

and so forth. So keep an eye on the path and the numbers. I also verified the change in the drv.c file by comparing the output from

lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3

to my wifi device and I could see the 7af0 entry in the first line.

JamesB
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