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my wifi device is only guaranteed to work with the kernel version 5.2+. i need to get wifi 6 AX 210 working on UBuntu 16.04, since I need ros Kinetic for my project. I've tried all the steps in this threed :Intel WiFi 6 AX200 not working on Ubuntu 16.04

and I had the same results, so my laptop was freezing ..etc. Is there any possiblity I can get my wifi device to work, such as updating the kernel and how can I do that.

Mog_II
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Intel does not officially support AX210 wireless adapters on Linux yet, sorry. I had to find that out the hard way myself.

Linux 5.10 should bring the necessary firmware though, that should probably be available in ubuntu sometime in January.

Edit: It seems you've already managed to get it working, nice. I just wanted to add that I would recommend upgrading to a newer LTS release by April because public support is running out for this one.

fallingcats
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  • That is wrong. It is supported. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1902848 – Pilot6 Dec 24 '20 at 14:26
  • Yeah but that is for linux 5.10. Is anybody even shipping 5.10 right now? I know Arch isn't. – fallingcats Dec 24 '20 at 14:40
  • This is not a question of shipping. The device is supported, the firmware and a kernel image are available. – Pilot6 Dec 24 '20 at 14:41
  • Okay well you're arguing semantics. Intel isn't officially supporting this card yet, and ubuntu 16.04 certainly isn't either – fallingcats Dec 24 '20 at 14:47
  • Intel released firmware for this adapter that can be used on Linux. Linux maintalners added support to kernel. A true statement would be: "the adapter is not supported by Ubuntu releases out of the box till the 5.10 OEM kernel is moved from proposed to main". Linux kernels don't "bring firmware" anywhere. – Pilot6 Dec 24 '20 at 14:50
  • The 5.10 OEM should appear in main in a week or two. – Pilot6 Dec 24 '20 at 14:53
  • And you could have noticed the OP's comment that they got it working even on 16.04. – Pilot6 Dec 24 '20 at 14:54
  • Yeah sorry I didn't see that. I still wonder though why somebody would be running a 4 year old lts release just to install beta quality kernels. – fallingcats Dec 24 '20 at 15:00
  • Just tested in arch with kernel 5.10.2 from testing, wifi "works" but Bluetooth does not (resetting adapter twice per second) and delays boot by 1.5min because of that. Pretty far from what I would call working or supported – fallingcats Dec 24 '20 at 15:19
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I still have a problem with the AX210 on my Dell laptop with every kernel release.

Here's the solution that works for me on kernel 5.11.0-36-generic with Ubuntu 20.04.

sudo mv /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pwm /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pwm.bak

It works just fine if the extra iwlwifi driver is not loaded.

erg
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