Intel AX211 wifi driver not working properly

[alexeimok]

Hello!

I have a NUC14 with AX211 wifi. I followed the instructions from viewtopic.php?p=804356#p804356 and upgraded the kernel from bookwom backport to ver. 6.10. I then took iwlwifi-firmware from trixie and the required files were found. But now, I'm having Not valid error log pointer 0x0024B5C0 for RT uCode when loading the iwlwifi module. I see the issue is discussed here https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless ... -p/1608808 and it says there that the issue has been fixed in kernel 6.9.7. But I have 6.10... What am I missing?

Thanks a lot!

[brcisna]

@alexeimok

I was just down this path myself
Here is what you are missing:

sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-iwlwifi
doing this will in turn do an update-initramfs -u at post install of the firmware

Aside: This will also pull down all other firmware packages you have installed as well.
reboot your pc,
You will have a working wifi card along with working bluetooth

Good Luck!

[alexeimok]

@alexeimok

I was just down this path myself
Here is what you are missing:

sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-iwlwifi
doing this will in turn do an update-initramfs -u at post install of the firmware

Aside: This will also pull down all other firmware packages you have installed as well.
reboot your pc,
You will have a working wifi card along with working bluetooth

Good Luck!

Thanks for a quick answer!

I installed Debian 12.7 from scratch. Then, added the bookworm-backports repo to sources.list. Then installed from there the linux-image-amd64 and kernel switched to 6.10.11+bpo-amd64. And finally I installed the firmware-iwlwifi from bookworm-backports too. Unfortunately, I have the same error

[stevepusser]

Install inxi from the repos, and report what

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inxi -Nxx

in the terminal says. That'll at least give some idea of what's going on with the driver.

Extra credit: Download, make a LiveUSB, and run a Live session of MX Linux 23 AHS (latest monthly snapshot), since it starts from a Bookworm base, but then adds many backports for "Advanced Hardware Support". I'm involved in it, so would like to see if works on your problem NUC.

[alexeimok]

Install inxi from the repos, and report what

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inxi -Nxx

in the terminal says. That'll at least give some idea of what's going on with the driver.

Extra credit: Download, make a LiveUSB, and run a Live session of MX Linux 23 AHS (latest monthly snapshot), since it starts from a Bookworm base, but then adds many backports for "Advanced Hardware Support". I'm involved in it, so would like to see if works on your problem NUC.

Hi! Here are the outputs:
inxi -Nxx

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Network:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7e40
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I226-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 56:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:125c

dmesg | grep iwlwifi

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[    3.723866] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.725235] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x400410, cnv-id 0x1080800 wfpm id 0x80000020
[    3.725247] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 7e40/0094, rev=0x441, rfid=0x2010d000
[    3.734670] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.3.94
[    3.734964] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[    3.734973] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[    3.734976] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 89.202a2f7b.0 ma-b0-gf-a0-89.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[    4.055333] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, REV=0x441
[    4.067534] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Invalid buffer destination
[    4.229817] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Not valid error log pointer 0x0024B5C0 for RT uCode
[    4.229850] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    4.229875] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    4.229881] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x80
[    4.229888] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[    4.230242] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded PNVM version 35148b80
[    4.230678] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
[    4.245706] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x2010d000
[    4.311065] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: base HW address: 18:93:41:4a:cd:4c
[    4.326070] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3 wlo1: renamed from wlan0
[    5.559489] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Invalid buffer destination
[    5.716973] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Not valid error log pointer 0x0024B5C0 for RT uCode
[    5.717205] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    5.717222] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    5.717228] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x80
[    5.717236] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[    5.717493] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
[    5.804294] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 1
[    5.882589] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Invalid buffer destination
[    6.040108] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Not valid error log pointer 0x0024B5C0 for RT uCode
[    6.040258] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    6.040276] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[    6.040291] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x80
[    6.040296] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[    6.041232] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4

Extra credit: Download, make a LiveUSB, and run a Live session of MX Linux 23 AHS (latest monthly snapshot), since it starts from a Bookworm base, but then adds many backports for "Advanced Hardware Support". I'm involved in it, so would like to see if works on your problem NUC.

Thanks for that option. I might try it in future!

[brcisna]

@alexeimok

There is a new kernel 6.11.5 as of yesterday 11/16...(through bookworm-backports) update to this kernel then do the following,,,

1. sudo apt remove firmware-iwlwifi -y
2. go to this URL to download the debian sid version of firmware-iwlwifi
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fir ... i/download
(Right click top ftp://------ and SAVE AS)
3. go to your downloads folder were this deb file saved to
sudo dpkg -i firmware*.deb
4. sudo update-initramfs -u
5. reboot pc.
Your lost intel wifi card should reappear.

Dont like installing non Bookworm packages but bookworm-backports firmware-iwlwifi did not function at all.
This sid version is a few weeks newer than the bookworm-backports version FYI.

Good Luck

[stevepusser]

Weird...could it be as simple as this one simple trick?

viewtopic.php?t=159566

I got a lot of bug reports by searching the intertubes for that error message.

[alexeimok]

Hi!

@brcisna, thanks, but I see exactly the same behavior after the kernel update and the kernel module.
@stevepusser, thanks, I went over this post. Nothing there that could help me with my issue.