For anyone coming across this post in the future here are the steps I took if you want to replicate them for the AX210 or other Intel based PCIE wifi cards.
I connected the Pi 5 to the 52pi P02 PCIE adapter and plugged in a wifi card using the AX210 chipset. (I didn't add the dtparam's as in the 52pi docs)
1. I followed the official Pi kernel building guide since it's been years since I last rolled my own kernel
2. Enabled the iwlwifi kernel module and sub-modules in make menuconfig
3. Installed the firmware-iwlwifi package via apt to install the device firmware to /lib/firmware
4. Went into raspi-config and enabled PCIe Gen 3
Only issues I've noticed is that the gui for some reason couldn't detect 6GHz wifi even though it could with a usb adapter. I manually entered the 6GHz ssid and it connected and works fine on a WPA3 protected 6GHz 802.11ax wifi.
I connected the Pi 5 to the 52pi P02 PCIE adapter and plugged in a wifi card using the AX210 chipset. (I didn't add the dtparam's as in the 52pi docs)
1. I followed the official Pi kernel building guide since it's been years since I last rolled my own kernel
2. Enabled the iwlwifi kernel module and sub-modules in make menuconfig
3. Installed the firmware-iwlwifi package via apt to install the device firmware to /lib/firmware
4. Went into raspi-config and enabled PCIe Gen 3
Only issues I've noticed is that the gui for some reason couldn't detect 6GHz wifi even though it could with a usb adapter. I manually entered the 6GHz ssid and it connected and works fine on a WPA3 protected 6GHz 802.11ax wifi.
Statistics: Posted by EvilMonkeySlayer — Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:30 pm