AX201 M.2 device becomes unstable after loading iwmbt-firmware for bluetooth

drsnx60

drsnx60

HI
Trying some laptop things now during summer.....
Installed Freebsd 15.1 - p1 binary release from repos.
machine is the Fujitsu H7510 with CometLake i7-10850H CPU and Quadro T1000 GPU.
Using wireless iwlwifi on the AX201 M.2 2230 board in the laptop.

Laptop creates boot - messages that is cant load the iwmbt-firmware ( bluetooth firmware as its not installed )
Therefor I install the comms/iwmbt-firmware-20251111 firmware package form ports.
After the iwmbt-firmware loads the Wireless connection becomes very much unstable and often dies after a few minutes.
Deinstalltion of the iwmbt-firmware makes the laptop behave normally again.

Noteing that the comms/iwmbt-firmware-20251111 packages is six months old , can it be updated ?
anyone using the iwmbt-firmware with success ?

Regards.
 
drsnx60 said:
HI
Trying some laptop things now during summer.....
Installed Freebsd 15.1 - p1 binary release from repos.
machine is the Fujitsu H7510 with CometLake i7-10850H CPU and Quadro T1000 GPU.
Using wireless iwlwifi on the AX201 M.2 2230 board in the laptop.

Laptop creates boot - messages that is cant load the iwmbt-firmware ( bluetooth firmware as its not installed )
Therefor I install the comms/iwmbt-firmware-20251111 firmware package form ports.
After the iwmbt-firmware loads the Wireless connection becomes very much unstable and often dies after a few minutes.
Deinstalltion of the iwmbt-firmware makes the laptop behave normally again.

Noteing that the comms/iwmbt-firmware-20251111 packages is six months old , can it be updated ?
anyone using the iwmbt-firmware with success ?

Regards.
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Check which modules are actually loaded then see upstream to see if the same file was updated since that date: https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/tree/main/intel?ref_type=heads
If there are you can just download the files from the repo and replace your existing ones. If it goes bad just remove the package and the files. Also check that you don't have files from any previous version of the firmware package.

If not, the issue is probably on the linuxKpi side, check to see if there's any issue already open? (I've checked the linux kernel bugzilla and there weren't any relevant issues)
 
fahrenheit said:
Check which modules are actually loaded then see upstream to see if the same file was updated since that date: https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/tree/main/intel?ref_type=heads
If there are you can just download the files from the repo and replace your existing ones. If it goes bad just remove the package and the files. Also check that you don't have files from any previous version of the firmware package.

If not, the issue is probably on the linuxKpi side, check to see if there's any issue already open? (I've checked the linux kernel bugzilla and there weren't any relevant issues)
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Yes there is firmware ibt-19-0-4.sfi for the AX201 that is three months old , or three months newer than the firmware in the ports collection.
 
I don't know if could be useful for your problem, but my Intel AC 7260 had problems with wireless and bluetooth when using 2.4 GHz as frequency (however only while a bluetooth device was paired); so you could try switching your AP to 5 GHz. Maybe some firmware shenanigan makes the wireless connection unstable even without an active bluetooth connection.

HTH.
 
I'm traveling this week, will probably try to reinstall the laptop with 16-current next week....
now using 15.1-P1 on it, no matter what I do the AX201/wlan0 looses carrier after some time sometimes minutes sometimes Hours.
 
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