Intel AX211 WLAN on new Z2 Tower G9 Workstation

[Corebash]

Hi Paul,

I’ve just confirmed the AX210 order. Your concerns honour you, as few of us like to order parts that end up not working, or worse, causing problems. As well, most sellers will not accept returned parts unless defective.

I’ve dealt with many self-professed “experts” over the years, and they mostly have one thing in common, being that their knowledge has to be accepted based strictly on faith. You on the other hand have provided information based on evidence, and as you stated, from actual results.

It was indeed very nice of that fellow to offer such detailed feedback of the installation. It goes a long way to reassure that similar results are within reach. I have little knowledge of M.2 slots, either Wi-Fi or SSD. My first HP was a 2011 Compaq 6200 Pro SFF Desktop PC, which is still in use after 11 years if you can believe it, and the second was a 2016 Z240 Workstation SFF Desktop PC, which is also in working order. Both had Wi-Fi added through classic means with a PCIe x1 card, the 6200 Pro a venerable Ralink RT2860, and the Z240 workstation an Intel AC-something-or-another. So the M.2 2230 Wi-Fi slot was entirely new technology for me.

Again, I am immensely grateful for your capable assistance. I will let you know how everything worked out when I’ve received the parts and completed the installation.

Regards,

Bernard

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Bernard, and thanks for the kind words.

I just gave a HP 6200 Pro MT to my oldest son to replace his old dc7900.

I has 16 GB of memory, a 250 GB SSD and I tossed in an old AMD Radeon HD 6450

I installed W11 22H2 on it and it works great.

I still have two 8200 Elite CMT's.  Both with the i7-2600 processors. One is in use, and one is a backup.

Also running W11 22H2.

I also installed PCIe x1 Wi-Fi adapters in those and ran the BT cables to the internal USB 9-pin connectors.

I bought the Intel AX200's. I don't believe the AX210's were introduced to market at the time.

It's great that these old PC's still work very well.

Once again, please let us know how your Wi-Fi card installation project went.

One of the main reasons I have acquired some knowledge is from other forum members such as yourself who report the results of processor upgrades, Wi-Fi card upgrades, memory upgrades, graphics card upgrades, etc.

That enables me to help others with confidence.

Paul

[devshenaxx]

Hi, I was also facing the same problem. I have tried this fix and it worked for me. Kindly suggest if it work for you or not.

firstly, open the control panel and follow the below given steps,

Wireless -- Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) (select products only)
> Intel Wireless-AC 9560 802.11ac 2 × 2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth® 5 (MU-MIMO supported)
> Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 + Bluetooth 5 (non-vPro™) (802.11ax 2 × 2, MU-MIMO, supporting gigabit file transfer
speeds)
> Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11ac/abgn 2 × 2 + Bluetooth 5 (MU-MIMO supported)

I don't know what "abgn" is, but Realtek RTL 8555373994 ac PCIe Adapter is what I found my computer to have.

Thanks and regards in advance

Dev

[Corebash]

My pleasure Paul; those kind words are well-deserved, believe me.

In the 2000s I had a predilection for building my own computers based on (what I thought were) high-quality ASUS and MSI motherboards with either Athlon 64 X2 or various flavours of Intel processors, all with best-of-breed components. They all seemed to work properly (at first) and apparently performed well, but none lasted more than a few years before developing fatal (irreparable) flaws. It’s when the last of those died that I bought my first HP PC, the 6200 SFF, and never regretted it. Plain, boring (compared to those “deluxe” ASUS boards) but utterly reliable and extraordinarily durable. The dependability of that 6200 prompted me to acquire the Z240, and now the Z2 G9, my first tower. Like yours, all are still in use, and all run mostly one flavour of Linux or another. They still have the original Windows on them but it doesn’t get booted very often. All I’ve done as improvements is to get bigger disks (all Seagate), more memory, Wi-Fi of course, and a USB 3 card for the 6200. That’s it. I sincerely hope that the Z2 G9 will follow in the footsteps of its capable predecessors.

I will report back on my Wi-Fi endeavour, and I’ll be glad if I can contribute to your already considerable pool of useful knowledge.

Regards,

Bernard

[Corebash]

Hi Dev,

I’m glad it’s working for you and I’m looking forward to being able to connect my new PC to a network. The HP manuals are filled with data but unfortunately very little useful information on finding out how to proceed when certain optional features needed to be factory installed and the correct configuration was not purchased from the start. Fortunately good people will assist you on finding a workable (and affordable) solution.

The letters “abgn” represent the five Wi-Fi (802.11) technologies (a, b, g, n and ac) are often abbreviated BGN, ABGN and A/B/G/N/AC in the specifications for wireless routers, Wi-Fi access points and the Wi-Fi in portable devices. For example, "N" means 802.11n.

I use Linux on my HP workstations, so I have to be more careful than most to avoid unsupported hardware, or where support is inadequate, such as Realtek. Not that they are bad products, but their support under Linux is dicey.

Regards,

Bernard

[devshenaxx]

Thanks for your response Corebash. Glad to hear from you.

I also use linux system, same pinch buddy.