Intel AC 8265NGW wifi Support?

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?

Hi Felix

We find the Intel AC 3160 doesn’t work on R2 board also, maybe there is the same problem, so will debug with AC3160 module, and then check this module.

Thanks, Gary. Hope to hear great news soon.