Intel BE200 WiFi 7 802.11be M.2 non vPro

CM4 Functionality	Pi 5 Functionality	Driver Required?	More Info
Untested	Full	Yes	GitHub Issue

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Description and Notes

To get this card working on the Pi, you need to compile a custom kernel with the following kernel configuration option added:

Device Drivers
  > Network device support
    > Wireless LAN
      > Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)
        > Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware support

Details on how to compile a kernel, you may want to look at cross-compiling for a significant speed bump Details on iwlwifi

Then you also need to install the latest Intel firmware for the BE200:

$ sudo cp linux-firmware-20241110/iwl* /lib/firmware/
$ sudo reboot

To physically connect it to a Pi 5, you may need to buy an M.2 A+E key to PCI Express card adapter, like this one from ThePiHut. Please note that the antenna connections use MHF4, not UHF - thus you likely need to order a pair of antennas (or adapter cables) as well.

Please note that 6 GHz support was only introduced to NetworkManager in v1.46 & v1.48, thus you’ll have a better experience with an upgrade to Debian (testing): trixie (which includes NetworkManager v1.50)

At this point, I’ve only tried this as Wi-Fi 7 client - not as an AP.

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