i7-1370P and AX201 WIFI on Linux?

[Marek]

Hello there, I just upgraded my 11th gen Intel board to i7-1370P, in otherwise fully working system, running Linux Mint. After booting up the system, I realized my Wifi is not working. In lshw I see only:

# lshw | grep AX
product: AX201 Bluetooth

I double checked if my wifi module is connected correctly and I don’t see any problem here. So the question is, is there any reason why AX201 module should NOT work with i7-1370P board?

Thank you!

[Water261]

The AX201 isn’t supported as it uses a proprietary cnvio2 interface. Framework only supports M.2 PCIe wifi cards. You will need to use a AX200 or AX210 for wifi & bluetooth to work correctly.

[MJ1]

@Water261

Framework only supports M.2 PCIe wifi cards.

Framework sells the AX211, which as I understand it also uses intel’s proprietary CNVio2 interface. It’s just not supported on 11th gen mainboards. Not clear if it may work on the 13th gen.

Is the AX210 better than the AX211?

I’m trying to decide which of the following I should get: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 No vPro Edit: TL;DR: If you have an Intel mainboard, then the AX210 is better than the AX211 And I’m not sure the AX211 is really an “upgrade.” because it’s less flexible. The AX211 is a “dumber” module. It has a Companion RF module (it’s just a radio and a signal processor, AFAIK) and all the general “network interface hardware” like the buffers, controllers, and the rest a…

[Marek]

@Water261

The AX201 isn’t supported as it uses a proprietary cnvio2 interface. Framework only supports M.2 PCIe wifi cards.

You mean, 13th gen Framework doesn’t support AX201 anymore? Because I got it with 11th gen and it worked flawelesly.

[Marek]

Ok, I upgraded to AX211 and it works now.