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The Linux kernel driver for Intel's current wireless chips.

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WiFi suddenly stopped working on Ubuntu 18

My Situation is exactly equal to OP's from this question (except for the exact hardware configuration; I can add some more details if needed), but the answer that fixed the issue there didn't work for ...
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Disabling 802.11ac/802.11ax only for specific connections?

My laptop has an Intel AX200 WiFi adapter, which is supported by the iwlmvm driver and works in 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax modes. I frequently have to connect to a WiFi network with a very poor signal (about ...
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Network controller driver won't install Debian 10

I'm trying to install driver for my Intel Wireless-AC 9462 network controller. I don't know why, but there is no info about available Kernel modules in lspci -v output. I've installed firmware-...
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Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] : I can't access wifi on my debian

I use debian 10. My wlan driver doesn't show up in ifconfig and I can't establish wireless connection in any way. It looks like my wifi card and necessary drivers are in place. sudo ifconfig enp1s0: ...
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Debian 10 freeze after wake up with message "BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS"

I recently changed my laptop to an XMG Core 15. I installed Debian 10 and updates it from main, contrib and non-free and everything is working (mostly) fine. Sometimes when trying to wake up the ...
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Intel® Wireless 7265 device hangs when under load

i own a Dell XPS 13 9343 with a Intel 7265 Card. When i stress too much the card downloading some stuff the card stops working and i need to turn off/turn on the software switch manually. I'm ...
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Parrot OS Wifi Problems

I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad E15 Gen4, with the Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 01) PCI wifi card. I have a fresh dual-boot install of Parrot OS and I'm having a very hard time ...
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Wi-Fi no longer works after abrupt shutdown

Repost of my question deleted from askubuntu for being off-topic because my distro is Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix. Description of the problem I forgot to plug in my laptop as it was syncing files from a ...
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frequent disconnects: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Unhandled alg: 0x3f0707

I keep getting disonnected and dmesg keeps repeating this, wlp0s20f3: deauthenticating from fc:ae:34:07:49:60 by local choice (Reason: 2=PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID) wlp0s20f3: authenticate with fc:ae:34:07:...
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What does "radar detection" mean?

When I run sudo iw phy, I get, 5500 MHz [100] (22.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection) 5520 MHz [104] (22.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection) 5540 MHz [108] (22.0 dBm) (no IR, radar detection) 5560 MHz [112] (...
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Intel wireless card AX200 5g AP mode worked then failed

I have two intel wireless card, one of them is AX200. I didn't know intel disabled all 5g ap mode before buying it. The reason I want to use a wireless card for ap is I want to test how many ...
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Debian 10 - iwlwifi Problem (iwlwifi-7265d)

I have a weird problem with my Thinkpad x250 and its Intel 7265D Wifi card on Debian 10 running a 4.19.0-9 kernel. And would be thankful for any help! Wifi works after a fresh boot and the first ...
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No scan result with wlan0 on Kali 2020.1

My Kali2020.1 came without any wlan0. During the installation, I recieve the indication that the firmwares microcodesiwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode should be added via an external ...
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iwlwifi VS NetworkManager

I have an iwlwifi module installed and used as driver on my Lenovo ThinkPad s440 (Ubuntu 15.04). I also use NetworkManager for GUI setup which works perfectly till some point. But I found out that in ...
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Wi-Fi randomly disconnects on Ubuntu 18.04

Wi-Fi on my ThinkPad-L440 randomly disconnects on Ubuntu 18.04. I've done a lot of troubleshooting and tried a lot of proposed solutions already, but the problem still persists. While browsing the ...
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Wireless Card Not Sending Beacons During Heavy Traffic

I am using an Intel AX210 wireless card as an AP (actually a Wifi P2P Group Owner [GO]). However, I'm having trouble with it, because it seems like it is not sending beacon frames when there is high ...
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How to fix unavailable wireless

I have a problem with my computer. It is unable to connect or search wireless WiFi connections. At first I thought it was the WiFi card, but seems I still have the same problem after changing this ...
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iwlwifi Microcode SW error detected, restarting 0x0 when on 5GHz

Whenever I have the card connected with 5GHz, I experience sudden and seemingly random drops in connectivity that can last a little while. When I use 2.4GHz (11n_disable=1), these errors don't occur. ...
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lspci shows wifi adapter but network manager finds nothing (iwlwifi error -22?)

Trying to get my PC to connect to wifi; network manager is not showing any wifi connections. hostnamectl ... Operating System: EndeavourOS Kernel: Linux 5.18.2-arch1-...
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hostapd disables and enables interface

My hostapd, after some minutes of execution, it does this: wlan1: INTERFACE-DISABLED wlan1: INTERFACE-ENABLED then, connected clients lose connection and, if i try reconnecting, it wont't connect ...
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Iwlwifi dropping all packets in both Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.10

Recently, seemingly randomly, my Debian 11 installation's wifi (Intel AX200) quit working. It said that it was connected in Gnome, but no data could get through even to the router. When I checked ...
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Wifi card hard locked after suspend or hibernate

Every time my pc suspends or hibernate the wifi card hard lock is enabled and there is no way to disable it. I run Pop OS on an MSI GS 65. Fn + f10 (airplane mode) doesn't work. I have tried changing /...
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“Limited Connectivity” error after attempting to connect to a wireless access point on fresh install of KDE Neon ( based on Ubuntu 20.04)

Everything works fine when I connect to the main router, once I connect to a wireless access point (different SSID and does not have a DHCP server) I'm not able to connect to the internet with a "...
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Wifi Network is not detecting

I am using kali linux. version check by lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Kali Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling Release: 2021.1 Codename: kali-rolling I guess ...
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Failure to establish and/or hold WIFI WPA3/SAE RSN-IBSS VHT connection to small 5Ghz mesh

I ran into trouble extending my existing Batman Mesh with several new Wifi devices. The existing configuration worked fine for years on the existing devices. All relevant systems (now) run up2date 5....
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WiFi 6 AX200 not connecting Automatically Ubuntu 20.10 after Reboot/Restart

I upgraded my Wireless Card from Intel Wireless 9560 to AX200. I have Dual Boot Windows OS & Ubuntu 20.10 on my HP Omen. I updated my wireless driver on my Windows 10 environment. Everything ...
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wifi detected but it does not show

i have wifi not working i searched the web for a weak and it did not find a solution :( the out put of lspci -nn | grep Network is : 00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless-...
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wifi networks don't show up in network manager

I have installed the iwlwifi driver from backports for my intel wifi card here is the output of the lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3 : 00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a370]...
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Iwlwifi (dvm), debugfs and fixing rate

In the source code of the iwlwifi dvm linux driver, there is a function named « rs_program_fix_rate » ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/rs.c#L334 ) ...
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How to get the wifi card intel 7260M work on Jetson TK1?

I reflash the jetson tk1 to 21.6.Below shows that I succeeded: head -n 1 /etc/nv_tegra_release # R21 (release), REVISION: 6.0, GCID: 9887687, BOARD: ardbeg, EABI: hard, DATE: Sat Oct 14 01:25:24 UTC ...
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No wifi - Fedora 25 on Dell Latitude E5500

No wifi - Fedora 25 - I googled around, tried few things and stumbled upon this: I followed this answer already , as well as some other suggestions mentioned in that post. sudo dnf install -y https:/...
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Understanding intel wifi error codes

Today I was unable to connect to my home access point eventhough the key is correct. I searched the log files and found the following entries: NetworkManager[1272]: <info> [1486388354.0812] ...
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Intel 8260 wireless controller blocks suspend-to-RAM for 10 seconds

I'm trying to use an Intel 8260 wireless controller with Linux kernel 4.6.3 However, it blocks suspend-to-RAM for ~10 seconds while disconnecting from the wifi: [ 78.594542] wlp4s0: ...
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Intel AC 7260 No Wireless Function on Linux Mint 17 with Kernel 4.2.0-35

My box is currently running Mint 17 Qiana 64-bit with kernel 4.2.0-35. The firmware I have available for this card are iwlwifi-7260-7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17 (which is the latest that Intel ...
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How to solve adapter does not support AP (master) mode problem?

I have intel centrino N1000 wireless card. I am able to setup "wifi hotspot" with windows 7. But I am not able to setup "wifi hotspot" in ubuntu though I am able to connect to other wifi devices and ...
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Wondering about my `top` output = IRQ (nvidia, iwlwifi)

I am deeply wondering about this top (man page) output in uptime 5 hours 30 minutes only: top - 00:41:41 up 5:48, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.44, 0.63 Tasks: 281 total, 1 running, 280 sleeping, ...
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Wifi not working with Arch Linux

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. I recently changed my hard disk drive to an SSD and installed Arch Linux on it. What happens is that, when I try to connect to a Wifi Network via wifi-menu, it doesn't ...
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Intel AX210 with single antenna saw 5Ghz and then it didn't?

I've been upgrading an a bit older HP Pavillion laptop with SSD, more RAM and since I had one lying around, an Intel AX210 m2 wifi adapter. The stock adapter was a single-channel Broadcom ...
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Internal PCI-Express WiFi card showing in lspci but not showing in network settings/connections - Linux Mint 21 - 5.15.0-82-generic

The issue In my computer I have this internal WiFi PCIExpress:"Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260" So, it shows up in lspci as: 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 ...
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Network Unclaimed intel wifi 6 AX210/AX201 ubuntu 16.04

For a project i needed to work on ubuntu 16.04, unfortunately i cant access wifi rn i'm using usb tethering for internet but for project in need wifi. I tried to manually update 5.1 as for these ...
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iwlwifi: Not associated and the session protection is over already

What does this error mean, Not associated and the session protection is over already... I'm getting this in my logs, wlp0s20f3: Connection to AP ee:92:90:14:8a:40 lost wlp0s20f3: aborting ...
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Can I install the rtl8812au driver on WSL Ubuntu?

Using usbipd I have made a wifi usb device accessible to WSL Ubuntu which does not have the appropriate driver. I noticed the package rtl8812au-dkms could not get installed as is since WSL does not ...
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Wifi Adapter not working after upgrade

I upgraded 2 days ago and since then there is no wifi working anymore. I can find the device itself in all those network / hardware commands, but its just saying "wifi adapter not found". I ...
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wifi slow and unstable with iwlwifi

I have a Thinkpad P50 with NixOs (using the hardware config from https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware, which includes unfree drivers). I noticed that when using a wireless network it is usually by ...
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Slow wi-fi speed on kali linux

I have a dual boot kali linux installation. On checking my wifi speed on https://speedtest.net/ , I am getting 50 - 100 Mbps. But, even basic webpages are not loading smoothly on the kali linux. Note ...
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WiFi disconnects from time to time

I have a Dell Latitute 5420 with Xubuntu 22.04.1. I connecto to a dual band WiFi network (2.4/5Ghz). WiFi disconnects from time to time. Many times it does not reconnect automatically. I did some ...
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Wifi is not working correctly on Linux Mint 21

I have been having problems with my wifi using Linux Mint 21. It connects but every few minutes it disconnects by its own. On older versions (20.1, 20.2, 20.3) I didn't have this problem. I want to ...
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Dual boot Linux & Windows - Intel AX200 Wifi - Wifi not working nor appearing in rfkill on linux, but works in windows

I did a recent reinstall of both Windows 10 and Fedora 36 Linux where I installed Fedora Linux first then Windows 10. While wifi worked when installing Linux and in Windows, wifi stopped working on ...
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Discrepency between `iw reg get` and the Wi-Fi chip No-IR frequencies

I have a Intel AX200 Wi-Fi chip that I would like to use to host an 5Ghz Wi-Fi AP in France. When I run iw reg get, I have this: global country FR: DFS-ETSI (2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)...
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IPv6 not establishing connection for iwlwifi

I receive IPv6 from the router, DNS and gateway seems to be correct, other machines in the same network are able to establish connection via IPv6. I tested using a USB adapter and it worked, which ...
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