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On 2025-05-04T12:28:36+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

Created attachment 308081
Hopefully useful outputs from various commands

The G605CX Intel BE201 WiFi 7 card is not functional under Linux. I
tested this on Fedora 41 and 42, using various Kernels: 6.11, 6.13,
6.14.2, 6.14.4, 6.14.2-rog_cachyos (latest ROG kernel from asus-
linux.org).

The attached files are for Fedora 41, 6.14.4, linux-firmware
20250410-1.fc41.

I understand this might be a vendor specific issue, since Intel has
already added the drivers and they are being loaded, as seen in sudo
journalctl -k -b | grep wifi: "RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4" and
"BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS".

I am happy to provide more information.

Thanks!

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/0

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On 2025-05-04T13:09:52+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

Edit: GU605CX, not G605CX

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On 2025-05-04T17:51:21+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

I have done additional research and I think the issue relates to the
regulatory domain settings enforced by LAR.


iw reg get:
global
country DE: DFS-ETSI
        ...

phy#0 (self-managed)
country 00: DFS-UNSET
(2412 - 2413 @ 1), (6, 22), (N/A)

Furthermore, `iw phy0 channels` shows that all channels are disabled.


Since lar_disable doesn't work since Kernel 5.4, I'm unsure how to proceed.

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On 2025-05-11T19:29:33+00:00 emmanuel.grumbach wrote:

Please try to load iwlwifi with debug=0x4001 as a module parameter for
iwlwifi.

Do you have the .pnvm file installed?

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On 2025-05-11T19:52:40+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

Created attachment 308112
iwlwifi debug output

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On 2025-05-11T19:53:31+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

Hi, thanks for your reply! I've added the module parameter, attached is
the new output for journalctl -b | grep iwlwifi after rebooting (see
iwlwifi debug output above).

I'm not sure what .pnvm files are, but based on the output, some pnvm
thing is being loaded. I have these related files in /lib/firmware:

/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-bz-b0-gf-a0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-ma-b0-gf4-a0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-ma-b0-gf-a0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf4-a0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0.pnvm.xz
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm.xz

I think the first one is relevant, since the driver in use is iwlwifi-
bz-b0-fm-c0-96.ucode.

By the way, I am now on Fedora 42 with Kernel 6.14.5 and linux-firmware
20250410-1.fc42. No changes since updating.

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On 2025-05-11T20:00:03+00:00 emmanuel.grumbach wrote:

So what does iw reg get say now?

You can't connect to any access point? Even in 2.4GHz?

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On 2025-05-11T20:06:26+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #6)
> So what does iw reg get say now? 
> 
> You can't connect to any access point? Even in 2.4GHz?

Correct, no APs are found in the search. My router supports 2,4 and 5
GHz.

iw reg get

global
country DE: DFS-ETSI
        (2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
        (5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
        (5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS, AUTO-BW
        (5470 - 5725 @ 160), (N/A, 26), (0 ms), DFS
        (5725 - 5875 @ 80), (N/A, 13), (N/A)
        (5945 - 6425 @ 320), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
        (57000 - 66000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)

phy#0 (self-managed)
country 00: DFS-UNSET
        (2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-80MHZ, 
NO-160MHZ
        (2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
        (2447 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, 
NO-160MHZ
        (5170 - 5190 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, 
IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5190 - 5210 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, 
IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5210 - 5230 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, 
IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5230 - 5250 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, 
IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5250 - 5270 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5270 - 5290 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5290 - 5310 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5310 - 5330 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5490 - 5510 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5510 - 5530 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5530 - 5550 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5550 - 5570 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5570 - 5590 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5590 - 5610 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5610 - 5630 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5630 - 5650 @ 240), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5650 - 5670 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
NO-160MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5670 - 5690 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
NO-160MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5690 - 5710 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, 
NO-160MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5710 - 5730 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, 
NO-160MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5735 - 5755 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5755 - 5775 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5775 - 5795 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5795 - 5815 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5815 - 5835 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5835 - 5855 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5855 - 5875 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40MINUS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5875 - 5895 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, 
NO-HT40PLUS, PASSIVE-SCAN

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On 2025-05-14T11:37:25+00:00 ajgallego wrote:

I have the exact same problem with the same hardware, and I'm also
experiencing the issue with WiFi. Here are the outputs I'm getting:

$ iw reg get


global
country 00: DFS-UNSET
        (755 - 928 @ 2), (N/A, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
        (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
        (2457 - 2482 @ 20), (N/A, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (2474 - 2494 @ 20), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
        (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A)

phy#0 (self-managed)
country 00: DFS-UNSET
        (2412 - 2413 @ 1), (6, 22), (N/A)


When I run iw phy phy0 channels, it shows a huge list of disabled channels — 
everything is disabled across all bands (1, 2, and 4).

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On 2025-05-16T12:29:48+00:00 emmanuel.grumbach wrote:

can you please record tracing for this?

Disable wifi

then do:

sudo trace-cmd record -e mac80211 -e cfg80211 -e iwlwifi -e iwlwifi_dbg

then, reproduce the failure to connect, then stop the recording.

This will create a trace.dat file that you can compress and send to us
(or attach to this bug).

Thanks

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On 2025-05-16T12:44:32+00:00 ajgallego wrote:

Created attachment 308133
trace.dat

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On 2025-05-16T12:47:09+00:00 ajgallego wrote:

Hi,

I've done the trace as requested. You can download the file from the
following link:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=308133

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks!

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/11

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On 2025-05-22T06:08:46+00:00 emmanuel.grumbach wrote:

Thank for the data.
I just noticed that you're all using 6.14 and below.
We have a new driver for this device in 6.15.
I'd be very interested in knowing if the problem persists there.

The easiest is problem to use our backport tree that contains the latest fixes:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/

Let me know if things work for you using that.
Thanks!

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/12

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On 2025-05-22T06:54:39+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #12)
> Thank for the data.
> I just noticed that you're all using 6.14 and below.
> We have a new driver for this device in 6.15.
> I'd be very interested in knowing if the problem persists there.
> 
> The easiest is problem to use our backport tree that contains the latest
> fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
> 
> Let me know if things work for you using that.
> Thanks!

Hi, thanks for the update!
I compiled the backports and dmesg shows that it's now using 
iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-98.ucode, instead of 96:


> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwl_request_firmware
> attempting to load firmware 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-101.ucode'
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load
> for iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-101.ucode failed with error -2
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwl_request_firmware
> attempting to load firmware 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-100.ucode'
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load
> for iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-100.ucode failed with error -2
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwl_request_firmware
> attempting to load firmware 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-99.ucode'
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load
> for iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-99.ucode failed with error -2
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwl_request_firmware
> attempting to load firmware 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-98.ucode'
> May 22 08:36:30 nostromo kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwl_req_fw_callback
> Loaded firmware file 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-98.ucode' (1925092 bytes).

However, I still don't find any networks, and the output of iw reg get
and iw phy phy0 channels is still the same (all channels disabled).
Perhaps I didn't install the backports correctly? I have this:

> modinfo -n iwlwifi
>
> /lib/modules/6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64/updates/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko

and

> modinfo iwlwifi | grep ver
> version:        iwlwifi-stack-public:master:13805:a65f3e22
> srcversion:     20B598E6BB1C558CD3BECC1
> vermagic:       6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload 

Happy to provide more info.
Thanks!

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On 2025-05-23T07:29:28+00:00 ajgallego wrote:

The exact same thing happened to me. I also tried updating to the latest
mainline kernel, but unfortunately, it only allowed me to go up to
6.14.8. Sadly, that didn’t help at all—in fact, it just caused more
things to break and misconfigure, so I didn’t get any improvement from
it.

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On 2025-06-04T17:14:04+00:00 ajgallego wrote:

Any update about this?

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On 2025-06-05T17:54:32+00:00 kolyabodo wrote:

To add to this, I am having the same issue on the Zephyrus G16 2025
model, GU605CR.

I've tried on Debian, Debian Sid with latest kernel, Fedora, Arch based
distros, and in none of them I was able to have any wireless connection
available although the Intel BE201 card was being recognized.

Hopefully this can be solved, as is affecting everyone on the latest G16
2025 models and no workaround has been found to date.

Let us know if any update on the issue, thank you!

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On 2025-06-05T21:32:56+00:00 clement wrote:

Created attachment 308210
trace from Asus GU605CR with kernel 6.15.0

trace-cmd record -e iwlwifi -e mac80211 -e cfg80211 -e iwlwifi_msg

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On 2025-06-05T21:34:28+00:00 clement wrote:

Hello,

I have attached another trace, from an Zephyrus G16 2025 model, GU605CW.

I'm on NixOS, linux_latest (6.15.0).

Let me know if I can provide any additional info.

Thanks you.

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On 2025-06-08T09:53:51+00:00 william.bakshi wrote:

Hello, I have a very similar issue on my Asus Vivobook S14 S5406SA, with one 
small difference: on Ubuntu + kernel 6.11.26, which reports loading the FW 
correctly in dmesg but also "RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4" message, I have 
it barely functional, not showing an available adapter, but not all PHY 
channels are disabled and using awkward controls I can get it to scan and to 
connect to networks.
Perhaps the difference is that I'm not getting "BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS" 
in dmesg, so there is some (incomplete) functionality.

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On 2025-06-08T17:23:21+00:00 soumitrashtl9 wrote:

Plus one here with the 2025 Zephyrus G16 running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The
regulatory domain is set to CN and cannot change to US no matter what I
try. WiFi chip is detected but does not show visible networks.

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/23

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On 2025-06-09T06:11:52+00:00 william.bakshi wrote:

Freshly confirming - mainline kernel 6.15.1 resolves everything and WiFi 
becomes fully operational(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #12)
> Thank for the data.
> I just noticed that you're all using 6.14 and below.
> We have a new driver for this device in 6.15.
> I'd be very interested in knowing if the problem persists there.
> 
> The easiest is problem to use our backport tree that contains the latest
> fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
> 
> Let me know if things work for you using that.
> Thanks!

Update - I've just upgraded the kernel to 6.15.1 (mainline) and WiFi
works fully, despite still reporting DFS-UNSET regions. Can be enabled,
disabled, networks selected and connected normally. Thanks a lot!

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
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On 2025-06-09T09:59:58+00:00 hcording_96 wrote:

(In reply to william.bakshi from comment #21)
> Freshly confirming - mainline kernel 6.15.1 resolves everything and WiFi
> becomes fully operational(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #12)
> > Thank for the data.
> > I just noticed that you're all using 6.14 and below.
> > We have a new driver for this device in 6.15.
> > I'd be very interested in knowing if the problem persists there.
> > 
> > The easiest is problem to use our backport tree that contains the latest
> > fixes:
> >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
> > 
> > Let me know if things work for you using that.
> > Thanks!
> 
> Update - I've just upgraded the kernel to 6.15.1 (mainline) and WiFi works
> fully, despite still reporting DFS-UNSET regions. Can be enabled, disabled,
> networks selected and connected normally. Thanks a lot!

This is only on the Vivobook S14 S5406SA, correct? I just want to avoid
confusion since this thread focuses on the Zephyrus G16 GU605C

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On 2025-06-09T10:03:25+00:00 nick wrote:

> This is only on the Vivobook S14 S5406SA, correct? I just want to avoid
> confusion since this thread focuses on the Zephyrus G16 GU605C

+1 for this because I am running 6.15.1 on the GU605CR and Wi-Fi is
still broken.

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On 2025-06-09T10:07:41+00:00 william.bakshi wrote:

(In reply to hcording_96 from comment #22)
> (In reply to william.bakshi from comment #21)
> > Freshly confirming - mainline kernel 6.15.1 resolves everything and WiFi
> > becomes fully operational(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #12)
> > > Thank for the data.
> > > I just noticed that you're all using 6.14 and below.
> > > We have a new driver for this device in 6.15.
> > > I'd be very interested in knowing if the problem persists there.
> > > 
> > > The easiest is problem to use our backport tree that contains the latest
> > > fixes:
> > >
> >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
> > > 
> > > Let me know if things work for you using that.
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > Update - I've just upgraded the kernel to 6.15.1 (mainline) and WiFi works
> > fully, despite still reporting DFS-UNSET regions. Can be enabled, disabled,
> > networks selected and connected normally. Thanks a lot!
> 
> This is only on the Vivobook S14 S5406SA, correct? I just want to avoid
> confusion since this thread focuses on the Zephyrus G16 GU605C

Correct. The configuration for which it works is Vivobook S14 S5406SA
with Ubuntu.

The only spotted difference seemed to be in the lack of "BIOS contains
WGDS but no WRDS" message on my side.

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On 2025-06-09T17:39:42+00:00 clement wrote:

Hello,

Confirming that upgrading to 6.15.1 did not fix it on a GU605CW.

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/28

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On 2025-06-12T08:27:41+00:00 johannes wrote:

We think that all of this is related to FW/PNVM incompatibility - does
it go away when you revert all the files as here?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-
wireless/dm3ppf63a6024a9415c3a590026c051a7a2a3...@dm3ppf63a6024a9.namprd11.prod.outlook.com/

https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/merge_requests/578

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On 2025-06-12T11:50:44+00:00 clement wrote:

Hello,

I tried building my system with the following commit :
https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-
firmware/-/commit/0d92efb540f49e0aa254f0685b8a71b82608f5c1

It didn't solve the issue.

I noticed though that the driver my system load (bz-b0-fm-c0-98) was not 
affected by the merge request you linked to: 
[    4.683094] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 98.d661c37c.0 
bz-b0-fm-c0-98.ucode op_mode iwlmld

Did I misunderstand something ?

Can I provide additional info ?

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On 2025-06-13T07:08:11+00:00 xecho wrote:

Hi, I'm having the same issue on my 2025 GU605CR, however many of my
outputs seem to differ from some other posts here. I physically verified
that the chip is the same Intel BE201, but when look for certain key
substrings in the kernel output (via sudo dmesg | grep -i <string>), I
get no output at all for the following substrings: rfim, wgds, wrds,
iwl. I'm not sure if that is concerning, although the Wi-Fi works fine
on the Windows 11 installation that came with the system. The Bluetooth
is working well on my Linux install. I'm currently running kernel
version 6.15.1, although I also tried 6.14.10 and neither versions work.

My output for 'iw reg get' also differs, as follows:

global
country 00: DFS-UNSET
        (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A)
        (2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
        (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
        (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A)

This seems to be mostly the same as Javi's output but I don't have the
phy#0 section of the output.

My output for 'modinfo -n iwlwifi' is:
/lib/modules/6.15.1_1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko.zst

and my output for 'modinfo iwlwifi | grep ver' is:
filename:       
/lib/modules/6.15.1_1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko.zst
description:    Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
vermagic:       6.15.1_1 SMP preempt mod_unload


Any help with this would be greatly appreciated; thank you very much in advance 
for your consideration.

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On 2025-06-13T08:53:39+00:00 johannes wrote:

(In reply to Clément BUCHART from comment #27)
> Hello, 
> 
> I tried building my system with the following commit :
> https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/
> 0d92efb540f49e0aa254f0685b8a71b82608f5c1
> 
> It didn't solve the issue.

Hmm, OK. I'll go try to

> I noticed though that the driver my system load (bz-b0-fm-c0-98) was not
> affected by the merge request you linked to: 
> [    4.683094] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 98.d661c37c.0
> bz-b0-fm-c0-98.ucode op_mode iwlmld
> 
> Did I misunderstand something ? 
> 
> Can I provide additional info ?

Well, that file wasn't affected, but the PNVM file was affected, and -
assuming you installed all the files from the MR - it should have loaded
the older PNVM file that (supposed to be) compatible with the FW -98
version, and we were hoping it'd fix the issue.

Trying this myself though, I see

  iwlwifi 0000:00:00.0: 0x20000DE0 | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT

when I use the new PNVM file with the older firmware version, so
possibly this is something else.


So ... I did some more experiments with 6.14.4 now (though on simulated 
hardware, I didn't have a machine with Bz/Fm I could install 6.14.4 on), and 
now I'm unsure what you're even reporting, because it _appears_ to mostly work 
for me?

Without the revert I linked to, I do indeed get the DE0 assert, so that
would be very very obvious, and results in not even loading the driver
to the point of having an interface to scan with.

With FW 96 and the matching PNVM, I get

Band 1:
        * 2412 MHz [1] 
          Maximum TX power: 22.0 dBm
          Channel widths: 20MHz HT40+
...
        * 2484 MHz [14] (disabled)
Band 2:
        * 5180 MHz [36] 
          Maximum TX power: 22.0 dBm
          No IR
          Channel widths: 20MHz HT40+ VHT80 VHT160
...
        * 5905 MHz [181] (disabled)
Band 4:
        * 5955 MHz [1] (disabled)
        * 5975 MHz [5] (disabled)
        * 5995 MHz [9] (disabled)
...

so all the 6 GHz channels are disabled, some of the 5 GHz channels are
disabled, and channels 1-13 on 2.4 GHz are available. "iw reg get" would
seem to match what someone pasted above.

So now I'm not sure what mean by "all channels are disabled"? Can
someone clarify? Or is the bug really "scan doesn't find anything" and
you're indeed seeing the same behaviour wrt. channel flags?


(FWIW, on the simulation I currently get a simulation crash when trying to 
scan, so I'm not getting that far, unfortunately.)

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On 2025-06-13T09:39:02+00:00 clement wrote:

Hello,

Thanks for your assistance.

I kept logs from before building linux-firware from the commit and after
and in both case i have "loaded PNVM version 752be616"

Regarding the specific problem : at least for me, there is no visible
issue, neither in the driver loading process, neither from any command
that I know of. The only problem is that any attempt to scan instantly
returns with no result.

I tried a lot of tools / implementation (wpa_supplicant, network
manager, iwd...).

I bought a wifi usb dongle to be able to connect to wireless network
pending this is resolved. As soon as I power off the intel chipset, i
can scan and connect to network without issues (i guess if it's powered
on, it takes priority and all scan fails)

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On 2025-06-13T11:35:05+00:00 johannes wrote:

Ouch, sorry to hear you had to resort to that.

Looking at the trace, I see the firmware reject it immediately because
there are no "valid" channels in the scan command, however, there are
many from the driver POV, of course. According to the prior regulatory
data received, the channels should be valid though. I'll keep digging,
but for now I guess I don't need more info.

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/34

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On 2025-06-13T14:40:19+00:00 andreas wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to add that on my G605CX I am able to configure a monitor
interface using the BE201 card and see traffic sent in my home network.

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/35

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On 2025-06-17T09:25:59+00:00 clement wrote:

Hello,

Some additional information in case it can help with the diagnostic :

I tried to replace the wifi chipset with an AX210NGW I had.

I didn't spend much time testing, but i didn't manage to connect.

iwctl station wlan0 scan return 
"Argument type is wrong" 

The iwlwifi logs

```
clement@medrengard:~/ > sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi
 [   21.487509] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   21.525416] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x400410, cnv-id 0x400410 
wfpm id 0x80000000
[   21.525505] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: PCI dev 2725/0024, rev=0x420, rfid=0x10d000
[   21.525508] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz
[   21.530058] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.42
[   21.531855] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: loaded firmware version 89.7f71c7f4.0 
ty-a0-gf-a0-89.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[   21.735100] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
[   21.905891] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[   21.905927] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[   21.905936] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[   21.905946] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[   21.906035] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000
[   21.906948] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: loaded PNVM version f8766ebf
[   21.993307] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: base HW address: c4:ff:99:ce:e9:ec
[   23.514483] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[   23.514531] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[   23.514574] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[   23.514583] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[   23.609244] iwlwifi 0000:2c:00.0: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with 
index: 1
```


I don't know if it because the card isn't whitelisted by the BIOS and i'm not 
supposed to just change it like that, if this indicates that this was a BIOS 
issue all along (hope not, since Asus already rejected all my request for 
support because "linux") or if there is an entirely other problem.

Don't hesitate to ignore all this if it's obviously irrelevant.

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On 2025-06-17T09:27:27+00:00 clement wrote:

(I should add there is a diagnostic tool in the BIOS that could scan and
connect to my network with the BE201 and fails with the AX210, but
again, might be totally irrelevant)

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On 2025-06-18T13:40:30+00:00 johannes wrote:

UEFI is probably unrelated, but how knows :)

Could you collect a firmware state image?

https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/debugging.html#firmware-
debugging

describes how, though we'll want to have the fw_nmi instead of
fw_dbg_collect, I think, to capture the entire memory space of the
device.

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On 2025-06-24T06:34:15+00:00 rahul wrote:

Sorry to clutter the thread more. I have a Zenbook Duo 2025 (UX8406CA)
AFAICS it has the same BE201 wifi card in question. My Wifi works on
6.14.7 but doesn't 6.15+ (freshly compiled 6.15.3 tested) I tried the
commits listed above and they didn't work. I haven't compiled a debug
mode kernel but I get a Input/Output error when attempting to modprobe
iwlmld. I tried with linux-firmware 061325 (including the commit above)
and 20250509, both didn't work. I'm on Linux From Scratch

I can get the firmware blob tomorrow.

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On 2025-06-24T06:43:38+00:00 rahul wrote:


> I can get the firmware blob tomorrow.

Scratch that my module load isn't even getting far enough to bind the
card to iwlwifi

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/41

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On 2025-06-24T07:48:29+00:00 emmanuel.grumbach wrote:

@Rahul, please open a new bug if you have valuable data to share.

This bug is on a different issue completely.

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On 2025-06-24T07:54:06+00:00 rahul wrote:

@Emmanuel Okay! I need to collect more data before I do that, building a
debug kernel right now.

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firmware/+bug/2113477/comments/43

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On 2025-06-25T21:49:10+00:00 romgrk.cc wrote:

I have the same hardware (Asus GU505CM with BE201) and issue, if
@ClémentBuchard can't provide a firmware image I'll build a debug kernel
overnight and provide one tomorrow.

@Johannes The debugging link above gives an example with mvm rather than
mld, is one of those options preferred?

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On 2025-06-26T07:08:28+00:00 johannes wrote:

Sorry, we just haven't updated the docs for mld - you don't get a choice
between iwlmvm/iwlmld, so you'll have to adjust for iwlmld instead of
iwlmvm.

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On 2025-06-27T20:49:12+00:00 romgrk.cc wrote:

Update: I tried building the `linux-mainline` kernel from the archlinux
AUR but couldn't get v6.16-rc2 booting past systemd properly. I tried to
build the v6.15-1 kernel (using the `linux-mainline` PKGBUILD set to
that version) but couldn't get the `linux-mainline-headers` package to
build (some issue with Rust files). I'm running on `linux-mainline`
v6.15-1 now but (maybe due to the headers issue?) can't see any output
from `iwlwifi` after it's been activated/enabled/re-enabled. I'm also
running `linux-firmware-git`, including the PR linked above.

The only `dmesg` output I get is:

```
[ 4498.808314] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory 
database
[ 4498.808431] Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[ 4498.808496] Loaded X.509 cert 'wens: 
61c038651aabdcf94bd0ac7ff06c7248db18c600'
[ 4498.808532] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db 
failed with error -2
[ 4498.808534] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[ 4498.816920] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
```

Anyway, this is somewhat unrelated to the issue at hand. I'll try to
give it another try in the next days or as soon as v6.16 is released,
the kernel build issues prevent me from providing the debug output.

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On 2025-07-01T06:45:21+00:00 senique wrote:

I had try kernel 6.11.0,6.12.3, but can't work.

This kernel works:
System: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS              
Kernel: Linux 6.14.11-061411-generi
Log:
  iwlwifi ...: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
  iwlwifi ...: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x80930 wfpm id 0x80005b20
  iwlwifi ...: PCI dev 7740/00e4, rev=0x461, rfid=0x20112200
  iwlwifi ...: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE201 320MHz
  iwlwifi ...: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-96.ucode failed 
with error -2
  iwlwifi ...: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-95.ucode failed 
with error -2
  iwlwifi ...: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.4.191
  iwlwifi ...: loaded firmware version 94.62990553.0 bz-b0-fm-c0-94.ucode 
op_mode iwlmvm
  iwlwifi ...: Detected RF FM, rfid=0x20112200
  iwlwifi ...: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
  iwlwifi ...: loaded PNVM version 35c04ca8
  iwlwifi ...: base HW address: 40:c7:3c:cf:43:f6
  iwlwifi ... wlp0s20f3: renamed from wlan0
  iwlwifi ...: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
  iwlwifi ...: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 1

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