Hardblocked A8 Wifi-card

#1

Can someone help, other than with the Radxa debian os the wifi adapter in fedora or ubuntu is hardlocked and not accessible. How can i resolve this. If the orion is an open linux system there should be a solution.
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#2

Agreed. Got the same issue on Ubuntu. The module appears in LSPCI as 61:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller. The driver exists in the kernel drivers files as rtw89_8852be.ko.zst. There definitely is something weird going on here.

#3

my ax210 is meeting same program

#4

So is mine. Hardblocked in rfkill list

#5

Are you all running the firmware in ACPI mode? I am experiencing the same issue on Ubuntu 25.04 with a custom built 6.15-rc5 kernel (commit 0d8d44db295ccad20052d6301ef49ff01fb8ae2d to be precise, with some amdgpu fixes on top). I am using UEFI version 0.3.0-1 in ACPI mode.

The kernel module that is responsible for the card is rtw89_8852be, so after I played with the command sudo rmmod rtw89_8852be && sudo modprobe rtw89_8852be a bit I noticed that the following messages appeared pretty consistently in the kernel log:

[ 5536.901534] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0: loaded firmware rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-1.bin
[ 5536.913475] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0: Firmware version 0.29.29.8 (39dbf50f), cmd version 0, type 5
[ 5536.913487] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0: Firmware version 0.29.29.8 (39dbf50f), cmd version 0, type 3
[ 5537.199747] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0: chip rfe_type is 1
[ 5537.228665] ACPI: \: failed to evaluate _DSM e8c3a8d2-694b-004f-82bd-fe8607803aa7 rev:0 func:6 (0x1001)
[ 5537.229392] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0: rfkill hardware state changed to disable
[ 5537.234066] rtw89_8852be 0000:61:00.0 wlp97s0: renamed from wlan0

I am really out of my depth here, but perhaps the failure to evaluate an entry in one of the ACPI tables forces the kernel to disable the hardware, which would point to a firmware issue.