The status of intel ax200 support (iwlwifi)

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On 2020-10-13, Alexander Pyattaev wrote:
> 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.

iwlwifi should support ax200 just fine, but its firmware won't allow AP
mode in the 5 GHz band at all (maybe using 25 mW on the short range band
(ETSI EN 300 440-1), if you're lucky). That is an intentional choice
from Intel to restrict (all of-) their WLAN cards and not fixable.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann