Windows on Radxa Dragon Q6A

[Lampadina_17]

same issue with ubuntu, i just made a micro sd with radxaos and boot it from boot selector

[Vitalicus]

I cant find wifi driver AIC8800 for windows arm64 on Radxa Dragon

[nighthawk]

Hi!

@strongtz

Plugging an Orange Pi eMMC into the Q6A causes a short circuit on the UFS power supply lines, which triggers the immediate shutdown protection you are seeing.

Out of curiosity, because I have some OPi eMMC modules here and because of the flash memory shortage: If I removed the connector on the UFS side from the eMMC module, would that prevent the short circuit and make the module work with a Q6A?

[strongtz]

@nighthawk

Out of curiosity, because I have some OPi eMMC modules here and because of the flash memory shortage: If I removed the connector on the UFS side from the eMMC module, would that prevent the short circuit and make the module work with a Q6A?

Yes, that would work.

[Vitalicus]

Still cant find drivers for wifi AX1800 (dual band usb adapter)

[Corsair63]

Just received Q6A this morning,Two problems:

1 - installed on SSD (Brand new) following instructions windows 11 25H2, no problem all went as expected, done all the steps, installed drivers and all the required. working perfectly some hours working, after that time the computer went to BIOS screen and not able to start windows again, the NVMe seems not to be present, as per CoPilot, the SSD has been locked for unknown reason.(of course disable sleep).

2 - the wired network connects to my network but doesn’t connect to internet?? I can surf over my network at home but not able to use internet.

[strongtz]

Hi. Please try manually installing the official Realtek driver here:

Windows on Radxa Dragon Q6A

Hi. Could you try the official Realtek driver in the link below? It’s a known issue that the open-source if_re driver in the driver pack doesn’t work in certain network environment. Note that you need to uninstall the old ethernet driver in device manager before installing the new one. PCIE_Win10_10074_arm64_04242025-20251027T082239Z-1-001.zip

[Corsair63]

I’ve installed new network drivers in my first attempt and there was no improvement.

now I cannot install anything because NVMe SSD is not recognized even the SSD is recognized in another computers, could be a failure of the NVME socket and SBC? or any misconfiguration in the BIOS?

[Hub]

I think I had similar issue. A few days after installing Windows I tried to boot but the system showed that there aren’t any boot disks. After hours of work on making the disk visible again (I even cleaned NVMe contacts) I somehow did it (please don’t ask how - just one of the random ways worked), but the system registry files were damaged (maybe because of many reboots). When another couple of hours of trying to recreate it with a repair pendrive passed without effects, I just formatted the NVMe and reinstalled the system.

[cis202]

so not from msd card ?

[ElRey]

Windows only runs at 30hz, no matter what resolution i can’t get it to run at 60hz. I am using Win 11 LTSC. UPDATE: nevermind i fixed the issue. its the monitor’s problem.

[fzh2003]

Hi! Firstly thank all the staffs for their efforts! It has been half a year since the first release. So is there any update with the driver for Wifi & BT? I would appreciate it if there is any update, since I need the bt function to test my gamepad. If not, is there any open source implementations that I can refer to and port it to windows on arm? Or is there any USB wireless adapter available on woa?

[sberghici]

No drivers available for integrated AIC WIFI and any other usb wifi adapters(and I guess it never will be released). For BT I use cheap TP-LINK BT USB adapter.

[fzh2003]

I saw that Hardware Compatibility List - Windows IoT | Microsoft Learn has a compability list for USB Wifi adapters. However, they are designed for ARM32. I wonder if it can also be used for ARM64 (as they are not compatible like x86 and x86_64).

In addition @jack mentioned above that they are pushing AIC to release drivers. I also saw from a thread in Quectel’s forum Windows 11 Arm WiFi - Hardware - Quectel Forums (Quectel is the manufacturer of the WIFI&BT chip), and they said that they can provide ARM64 drivers for VIP customers. I don’t know whether Radxa is a VIP customer. But if it also pushes Quectel, can it provide the drivers much quicker than AIC?

And lastly, I saw that linux drivers for AIC8800 is open source. If, I mean if, that we port the linux driver to WoA ourselves? Actually that’s what many developers doing in WoR project. However, it could be a hard work and take months.

[incognito]

There’s a windows WiFi driver…

Wi-Fi + BT support for Windows on Q6A

[Screenshot 2026-06-23 173929] I’ve been working on a Windows driver for the AIC8800D80 USB Wi-Fi/BT combo chipset found in the Dragon Q6A. It currently supports most of the client-mode functionality. There are a few remaining areas for improvement, such as: Wi-Fi Direct support (SoftAP, Miracast), throughput optimization, potential BT coexistence tweaks, settings UI. An experimental test-signed build is available here: aicwlan_arm64_0935761.zip The minimum required OS version is Windows 11…

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[LaurentD]

@fzh2003

manufacturer

I just tried it on my Dragon Q6A. It detect the networks but when I connect it does not have internet access. It looks similar to the issue I had with ethernet before installing the official realtek driver.

[Vitalicus]

strongtz, Can you create please a new Windows image for Radxa Dragon Q6A with all integrated drivers and windows updates?

[Lampadina_17]

just get 24H2 ltsc from MAS, activate it MAS and disable telemetry with ooshutup, then download the driver package from the first message, follow the tutorial (the .pdf document), install Mario’s wifi+bt drivers and your board is ready

[lion1986]

How to make the windows system to support other mipi-sdi screen and mipi-csi camera?