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From: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:26:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: Intel BE200 Wifi 7 card.
To: James Dutton <james.dutton@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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pon., 26 lut 2024 o 12:13 James Dutton <james.dutton@gmail.com> napisa=C5=
=82(a):
>
> Hi,
>
> I have seen lots of reports on the internet that say the Intel BE200
> does not work on AMD motherboards.
> So, by posting here I was hoping to find out if anyone knew whether it
> is a fundamental hardware incompatibility, or whether it is a bug in
> the software causing the problem.
> Intel's previous Wifi cards like the AX210 seem to work on both Intel
> and AMD motherboards
> , so maybe the BE200 is not supposed to work on AMD motherboards?
> I would be surprised as that probably cuts the BE200 off from about
> 50% of its market.
>

I have this card inside my banana PI R64 - ARM based:

root@bpi-r64-1:~# lspci -nn
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:3258]
0000:01:00.0 Unclassified device [0002]: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7915E
802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter [14c3:7915]
0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:3258]
0001:01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device
[8086:272b] (rev 1a)
root@bpi-r64-1:~#
root@bpi-r64-1:~#
root@bpi-r64-1:~# uname -a
Linux bpi-r64-1 5.15.137 #0 SMP Tue Nov 14 13:38:11 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@bpi-r64-1:~#
root@bpi-r64-1:~#
root@bpi-r64-1:~# dmesg |grep iwl
[    8.512368] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: assign IRQ: got 149
[    8.517556] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    8.523657] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: enabling bus mastering
[    8.559207] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id
0x2001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[    8.568086] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=3D0x472, rfid=
=3D0x112200
[    8.784501] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than
supported by driver
[    8.792276] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.9=
7.4.2
[    8.891945] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: loaded firmware version
83.d24e06ed.0 gl-c0-fm-c0-83.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[    8.913864] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) TBD Bz device, REV=
=3D0x472
[    8.956221] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: WRT: Invalid buffer destination
[    9.226787] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: loaded PNVM version e28bb9d7
[    9.340335] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: base HW address: a0:02:a5:d8:11:34
[406544.812198] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: WRT: Invalid buffer destination
[406545.164882] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: Registered PHC clock:
iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 0
[407167.666475] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: Unhandled alg: 0x707
root@bpi-r64-1:~#

Not sure then what it mean: "does not work on AMD motherboards." :)

BR
Janusz