The status of intel ax200 support (iwlwifi)

[Alberto Bursi]

On 13/10/20 16:36, Alexander Pyattaev wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to figure out if any version of openWRT can in principle
> support the Intel's AX200 chips. I am quite willing to build a kernel
> from source, but I have absolutely no idea whether I actually need to do
> so. Some info on the internet points to there existing a backported
> version of the driver, but I can not find it anywhere. If it does not
> indeed exist, any pointers towards making it work would be nice, I'd be
> happy to contribute a patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
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Afaik the support for AX200 was added in kernel 5.2, so if you use 
snapshot it should be OK (kernel 5.4).
I see the commits that add support for its firmware in the 
"linux-firmware" package, again in snapshot.

Next release will branch from snapshot so will probably also support the 
AX200.

If you install a snapshot release it should work already.

Assuming all the bugs I've seen around for this chipset were fixed, and 
also backported to 5.4 LTS kernel, which is what is used in the snapshot

-Alberto