Intel BE 200 Wi-Fi 7 not working on orange pi 5 plus running Armbian

[A bambah]

My setup includes orange pi 5 plus, Samsung NVME SSD M2 4 TB with Armbain os. 256 GB eMMC and Intel BE 200 Wi-Fi. There are no drivers for the intel BE 200 Wi-Fi or any instructions to make it work. 

[Werner]

That will need mainline kernel since drivers for it have been merged into 6.5 but legacy is 5.10.y

However mainline support for RK3588 is still experimental. The decision if you prefer using the most recent WiFi or everything else mostly functional is up to you. There is nothing we can do further.

[DroZDI]

true... for be200 working we need the kernel in version at lest 6.1

[ricardo_brz]

On 1/13/2024 at 4:32 AM, A bambah said:

There are no drivers for the intel BE 200 Wi-Fi

Did you try any of the rolling builds from GitHub, to check it could work?

 

As DroZDI said: we need kernel 6.1 as a minimum.

[Ward Zhou]

I am using a Rock5a with an RK3588s, and it won't even work on the Edge version. I think the adapter is bound with Intel chipsets, AMD users also complained about this on Windows 

[Antimtr]

Did anybody resolve this? I just picked up a 5 plus and want to go with either a be200 or a be1750x but I can't find any info about compatibility.

[Thomas Book]

Just got my new Intel BE200 working on my Orange Pi 5 Plus. You can try the following steps:

 

0. If your kernel version is >= 6.5, skip to step 3

 

1. Follow this official tutorial to build Armbian with the latest kernel: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

 

2. After successfully compiling, you'll find the image file under output/images. Burn this image to your TF card.

 

3. Boot into the new system and run 

dmesg | grep iwl

If you see a message like "Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-96.ucode failed..." then you're on the right track. 

 

4. Clone the latest Linux firmware repository

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

 

5. Copy iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0.pnvm and iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-96.ucode (depends on the highest ver # from the message you got at step 3) from the cloned repo to /lib/firmware.

 

6. chmod  644 on those files.

 

7. Regenerate the initramfs to include the firmware

sudo update-initramfs -u

 

8. Reboot

Edited April 25 by Thomas Book

[razvanphp]

Hey @Thomas Book

 

Can you please post a picture of your module?

 

I tried mine and even tho it's recognised and firmware loaded, interface does not show up, I'm suspecting I have a vPro modules, but no idea how to prove that.

 

Found those two models on intel site: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/230078/intel-wifi-7-be200/ordering.html

• BE200.NGWG
• BE200.NGWG.NV

... but mines only says BE200..NGW

 

```

# dmesg |grep iw
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Adding to iommu group 4
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x2001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.4.190
iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 93.c5af2ca2.0 gl-c0-fm-c0-93.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
```

 

PS: I have kernel 6.12