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The AX411 is supported in Linux 5.14. Were you using something like Ubuntu 20.04LTS that didn't have a newer kernel? 22.04 LTS should support it. Fwiw, Windo

The AX411 is supported in Linux 5.14. Were you using something like Ubuntu 20.04LTS that didn't have a newer kernel? 22.04 LTS should support it. Fwiw, Windows frequently doesn't support Wi-Fi out of the box but, when it's preinstalled, the drivers usually are too.

fortran77 4y ago
I tried 22.04LTS and 22.10 Ubuntu It turns out there are two versions of the AX411. It's the "killer" version that's not supported unless I either: - recompile the kernel to tell Linux that when it sees the ID for this card, use the driver for the standard card. That has been claimed to work. - recompile the kernel to enable an experimental feature This is 22.10 Ubuntu. You can see that the PCI device ID of 0x7af0/1692 is rejected by iwlwifi. # dmesg | grep iwlwifi [ 4.753725] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 4.755454] iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 7af0/1692, rev=0x430, rfid=0x3010d000 [ 4.755471] iwlwifi: probe of 0000:00:14.3 failed with error -22 One frustrating thing was that all the information in the forums was wrong. People (like you!) will tell me that something will work when it won't. This doesn't help the Linux community get new useres. I had to read the source and figure out what was going on. After spending a couple of hours on this for a client, I realized I was insane and bought a $20 older, supported WiFi M2 card for this box. These machines will be installed by a client and I didn't want to have to specify a custom kernel build, too. I wanted to specify Unbunto LTS and have the software ready-to-install. You mentioned that "preinstalled" Linux has fewer problems. Not so. I bought a dell rack-mount server with Linux pre-installed, and that machine couldn't wake from sleep either. It would go to sleep and need to be hard reset to wake up again.
hocuspocus 4y ago
> Fwiw, Windows frequently doesn't support Wi-Fi out of the box but, when it's preinstalled, the drivers usually are too. That's very true, sometimes even the wired NIC driver. My dad just replaced an old NUC with a modern AMD based miniPC and everything (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet) works out of the box with Ubuntu LTS, while Windows 11 doesn't even include a usable driver for the Intel I225-V NIC.

fortran77 4y ago

I tried 22.04LTS and 22.10 Ubuntu It turns out there are two versions of the AX411. It's the "killer" version that's not supported unless I either: - recompile the kernel to tell Linux that when it sees the ID for this card, use the driver for the standard card. That has been claimed to work. - recompile the kernel to enable an experimental feature This is 22.10 Ubuntu. You can see that the PCI device ID of 0x7af0/1692 is rejected by iwlwifi. # dmesg | grep iwlwifi [ 4.753725] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 4.755454] iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 7af0/1692, rev=0x430, rfid=0x3010d000 [ 4.755471] iwlwifi: probe of 0000:00:14.3 failed with error -22 One frustrating thing was that all the information in the forums was wrong. People (like you!) will tell me that something will work when it won't. This doesn't help the Linux community get new useres. I had to read the source and figure out what was going on. After spending a couple of hours on this for a client, I realized I was insane and bought a $20 older, supported WiFi M2 card for this box. These machines will be installed by a client and I didn't want to have to specify a custom kernel build, too. I wanted to specify Unbunto LTS and have the software ready-to-install. You mentioned that "preinstalled" Linux has fewer problems. Not so. I bought a dell rack-mount server with Linux pre-installed, and that machine couldn't wake from sleep either. It would go to sleep and need to be hard reset to wake up again.

hocuspocus 4y ago

> Fwiw, Windows frequently doesn't support Wi-Fi out of the box but, when it's preinstalled, the drivers usually are too. That's very true, sometimes even the wired NIC driver. My dad just replaced an old NUC with a modern AMD based miniPC and everything (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet) works out of the box with Ubuntu LTS, while Windows 11 doesn't even include a usable driver for the Intel I225-V NIC.