The AX210 WiFi keeps failing to connect

[PCP_Michael]

Hi All,

We would like to use the AX210NGW on our customized board. I referred the below link to enable the AX210, but it keeps failing to connect.

AX210 Driver Issue

I am attempting to get Intel’s AX210NGW wifi card working on some new Orin Nanos that I have. I know that this card isn’t officially supported at this time, but I have previously gotten it working on a different Orin Nano and was hoping someone might be able to help me figure out what I’m doing differently. So far I have followed the processes described by my carrier board manufacturer (Jetpack, AX210). The driver install is adding Intel’s driver to /lib/firmware and deleting the iwlwifi-ty-a0-…

My code base is R35.5.0.
There is no any logs from the kernel. Please give me any suggestions. Thanks.

Michael

[DaneLLL]

Hi,
Please check this and give it a try:

Jetson/L4T/r36.3.x patches - eLinux.org
Enable AX210 WIFI module

[PCP_Michael]

Hi @DaneLLL

I tried it. The results as below:

Experiment 1 :

Jetpack 6 Wifi slow startup with backport-iwlwifi-dkms

I found another solution – building the kernel from source. I added these to the arch/arm64/configs/defconfig CONFIG_WLAN=y CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL=y CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y CONFIG_IWLDVM=m CONFIG_IWLMVM=m CONFIG_IWLWIFI_OPMODE_MODULAR=y

Result : I have already enabled it before.

Experiment 2 :

Jetpack 6 Wifi slow startup with backport-iwlwifi-dkms

@dakejahl I have encountered the same problem. So, I installed Wi-Fi driver from source code. At first, I download backports-5.15.81-1.tar.xz from https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Releases. I installed backports-iwlwifi from source code. tar Jxfv backports-5.15.81-1.tar.xz cd backports-5.15.81-1 make defconfig-iwlwifi make -j8 sudo make install I add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf. options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1 And, I reboot OS. sudo reboot

Result : The AX210 can’t working after installing this version of backport.

Experiment 3:

Orin NX 16GB wifi problem

The solution was to flash the new version of jetpack 6 tuned by Seeed (4th of July version) Seeed have suggested an workaround, but in my case, had to be tuned more: sudo rm /lib/modules/5.15.136-tegra/build sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.136-tegra-ubuntu22.04_aarch64/3rdparty/canonical/linux-jammy/kernel-source/ /lib/modules/5.15.136-tegra/build sudo apt install -y iwlwifi-modules sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo reboot sudo modprobe iwlwifi sudo lspci | grep Network sudo…

Result: It can’t boot into Ubuntu after applying the modification.

Thanks.

[Gorgo90]

I fixed it on my 5.1.2 with this patch:

• wget https://github.com/mistelektronik/forecr_blog_files/raw/master/Intel/AX210_driver.zip
• unzip AX210_driver.zip
• cd AX210_driver/
• sudo ./apply_patch.sh
• sudo ./disable_bt.sh
• Reboot

You will lose the BT though because the patch fixes the wifi but the BT module will restart itself indefinitely. It must be disabled with the last sh script.