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I recently purchased a new laptop which features an Intel Wireless-AX200 Networking device for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. I installed elementary OS 5.0 "Juno" along with the latest stable linux kernel (5.1.1), as I've heard that it should come with support for the aforementioned networking device

However, I cannot seem to find any drivers related to the device, either within /lib/firmware or within the 5.1.1 source (looking for anything prepended with "iwlwifi").

Looking through lspci reveals the following devices, none of which appear to be a wireless or bluetooth device:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e9b
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 07)
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device a368 (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port 20 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port 9 (rev f0)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a334 (rev f0)
00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device a328 (rev 10)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device a30d (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1f10 (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f9 (rev a1)
01:00.2 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1ada (rev a1)
01:00.3 Serial bus controller [0c80]: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1adb (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 2723 (rev 1a)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
05:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
05:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
05:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
06:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 NHI [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
45:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)

Has anyone been able to locate these aforementioned drivers within the 5.1 or 5.1.1 source? I've also just emailed [email protected], and can update this post with their response as it comes in.

UPDATE

I received a response from Intel. The driver itself has not made it into the kernel, therefore they suggested using their backport driver (which has now made wi-fi accessible on my laptop [mid-2019 Razer Blade])

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release & Here

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    Hi Jon. That last bit is an answer, so you should add it as an answer to your question. Not as part of your question. May 15, 2019 at 13:34
  • Please post your "Update" as an actual answer... Aug 2, 2022 at 11:46

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Update:

The driver has been released for all major kernels here


Original:

According to the product page it's a pre-certified solution and the driver has not been published yet.

Even Linus's Development branch doesn't reveal anything so I'm assuming that at the time of this writing, it's not Linux compatible yet and the article you're referring to uses marketing speak for: We'll be adding that soon...

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Just upgrade to the latest Linux Kernel, >5.1, and use the latest firmware for the Wireless adapter: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html

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