I bought an Intel AC 8265NGW NGFF wifi card with a mpcie converter. After I booted R2 with the latest image (2017-09-04), the wifi card is not detected. Below is the output of the lspci command,
`pi@bpi-iot-ros-ai:~$ lspci -v
00:01.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 0801 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 60
Memory at <ignored> (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at 60200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00000000-00000fff
Memory behind bridge: 60000000-600fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 60100000-601fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
01:00.0 IDE interface: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061 SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061 SATA IDE Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 60
I/O ports at 0010 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0020 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0018 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0024 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0000 [size=16]
Memory at 60000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 60100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci`
I did some search and realised that the intel wifi card needs the iwlwifi kernel module. But the module is not loaded and I can’t find the module on the system at all. The firmware seems to be available under /lib/firmware directory.
First of all, not sure if mpcie works or not? Second, can the card be supported on R2?