Qualcomm Missing WIFI

Hardware
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Hi,

I built a new PC with 2x WIFI. The onboard Intel WIFI6E and a additional Qualcomm WIFI 7.

01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] (rev 1a)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc WCN785x Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800] (rev 01)

Driver is loeded.

[root@MM-FW-001 ~]# find /sys | grep drivers.*02:00.0
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath12k_pci/0000:02:00.0

But I can’t get the WIFI 7 card to show up in the WUI.

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Only the Intel NIC shows up. It’s the same with hostapd.

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Whats wrong?

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You are either lacking firmware or the driver does not support your revision of the chipset.

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Hm I will try Manjaro to see if it’s working, but it has a newer kernel. With Windows 11 it’s working. I know that because I used Windows to USB when updating some firmwares.

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Manjaro out of the box didn’t show up the NIC as well, but with the first online update

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it installed additional fw, but still didn’t show up as wifi nic. It switched from the old kernel 6.8 to 6.12 via upgrade, but still not there. I manually switched to version 6.16, no change.

I found this article about broken firmware :pensive_face:

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Is there a easy way to replace firmwares in ipfire? I would like to test different versions as mentioned in the linked topic.

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They are all in /lib/firmware. You can simple replace the files.

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