RaspAP and Probe With Driver iwlwifi Failed with Error -22 Issue

[BanditoB1]

Greetings!

I am trying to set up RaspAP using an Intel BE200 WiFi 7 card and cannot get a driver/firmware to load for the card.

I have enabled PCIE on the Raspberry Pi 5 and is shows up correctly under lspci:

0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21)
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775*/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2 (rev 1a)
0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21)
0002:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Raspberry Pi Ltd RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge

But when I run dmesg to see the status, I get:

[    3.807405] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.811035] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x2001910 wfpm id 0x80000000
[    3.811121] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
[    3.845092] iwlwifi 0001:01:00.0: probe with driver iwlwifi failed with error -22

Everything I've read indicates that an invalid parameter is being passed to iwlwifi or that the appropriate driver/firmware for the card is not installed.

I have run apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi and everything seemed to run correctly. I have manually copied the driver/firmware files into /lib/firmware, but nothing seems to work. I continue to get the probe with driver iwlwifi failed with error -22.

Google provides some results for this error, but after trying them, I am still unable to resolve the error.

I would really appreciate any thoughts or ideas on how to resolve this!

My configuration is:

• Raspberry Pi 5, 8GB Ram
• ZDE ZP590A PCIe to WiFi7 WIFI6(E) WIFI5 HAT+
• Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 M.2 Card

[billz]

I don't have this specific card / HAT combo so can't offer direct troubleshooting advice. Pinning this discussion in the event other users of RaspAP have firsthand experience with it.

[BanditoB1]

Thanks!

I was playing around further and downgraded to kernel version 6.6 as recommended by Google and got a lot further, sort of. 6.6 was looking for older firmware files from Intel that are no longer available, so ultimately couldn't load the available drivers.

I am now trying to get kernel 6.12 loaded, but am having no luck in getting it to work. I have found a repo with that version of the kernel, but when I do rpi-update with that hash, it's coming back and saying Invalid hash given. I'm not sure which repo that rip-update pulls from, but I've only been able to get it to find the current 6.18 version.

One of the Google AI responses mentioned that 6.18 broke something needed to run the Intel BE200 card, but I have no idea if this is true or not.

I'll keep playing around to see what happens.

[BanditoB1]

I finally found a good version of kernel 6.12 and got it installed and running and now the Pi is complaining about the drivers for the Intel BE200 card. It comes up with a couple of errors related to the checksums not matching and then throws some errors regarding the version numbers of the drivers. So, I'm not sure if I'm making any progress or not but at least I'm getting some different results than with kernel 6.18 which just flat out fails on boot.