AX210 M.2 wifi / bt card ..having issues with bt not showing up

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I’ve been using a usb dongle for wifi on my hp elite desk 800 g3 and it was great but I wanted a internal solution and wanted to also have BT. I purchased a wifi / bt combo card for the free m.2 slot that’s specifically for a wifi card. After installing and booting the system it picked it up and signed into the wifi network just fine. But, while it sees the wifi card it does not see the bt module on the same card. Inxi doesn’t see it, lspci does not see it.

I’ve tried a few live linux versions such as ubuntu and fedora and it’s the same…they all see the wifi but not the bt. As for the hp elite desk it’s a used one I got but everything else is working decently and what I’m typing this on. The bios was last updated in “P21 Ver. 02.39 date: 11/22/2021” so it’s not that old. In the bios the m.2 slot marked wifi/bt is on obviously since the wifi card is functioning. I don’t think this is a linux issue, thought I’d ask here as there’s a few of you guys that run the older stuff. Is it possible the AX210 isn’t supported due to hardware / bios issues? I saw somebody mention on reddit that the AX210 might be too new and the AX200 might work. Seems like it’s either a bad card or a bios issue. Again thought I’d ask here to see if anybody has fixed something similar.

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.8-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
    Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241218

Machine:
  Type: Mini-pc System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 DM 65W v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 35 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 829A v: KBC Version 06.29 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 2FZ23US#ABA UEFI: HP v: P21 Ver. 02.39 date: 11/22/2021

CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-7700T bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 900 min/max: 800/3800 cores: 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900
    5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 bogomips: 46419
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx


Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15e3
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
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Something else with this card is…when I resume from sleep I can’t reconnect to the wifi network. It acts like it’s trying but after several times gives up. In fact, I can’t connect to either of the two networks until I reboot then it connects fine. Again, I tried this on a few live cd’s and this doesn’t seem to happen so this might be a suse issue. The usb dongle didn’t have issues reconnecting after resume from sleep. I tried to restart network services and that didn’t work as only rebooting seems to resolve this.

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@Neal Did you run rfkill list` to see if it’s not soft/hard blocked?

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I had a similar issue with the BT part of this adapter only to discover that I hadn’t correctly fastened the little antenna wires, maybe it’s worth checking it out?
I have two of these adapters and they both work great with all the distros I throw at them, a faulty board is another possibility.

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Thank you very much for the link. In my case I had no wifi with the new kernel 6.12.6 to activate the system after entering suspension. Solved with this script:

Special thanks to its creators and to @RangoTango for the message.

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Maybe faulty…but I don’t see the wires from keeping the bt module from showing up in the kernel.

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I did and nothing …but even if it was blocked inxi should still show it…right?

sudo rfkill list
[sudo] password for root:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I’m leaning towards a bad card or bios/hardware slot or something.

I’m looking into trying to install the very last firmware hp released but the one that came installed isn’t very old and shouldn’t be a issue. I tried to create freedos thumb drive and downloaded and extracted the bios firmware to it but it can’t find it. HP has a windows flashing tool but nothing for linux.

Thanks Malcolm!

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Thanks for the link…hopefully the devs will get this fixed soon.

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Ran a dup since it has a new kernel and it’s the same …maybe even worse as waking up from sleep it didn’t even see it had any cards installed.

6.12.6-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 19 17:23:25 UTC 2024 (fb072de) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As usual a reboot fixed it.

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JFYI: 1234781 – Intel wifi ax200 issue with kernel 6.12.6

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