Intel AX201 has connection issues

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

I have issues with my Intel AX201 Wifi card of my Dell 7706 notebook running Windows 11. My notebook shows missing internet connectivity but DHCP and IP seems to be done fine.

That is the log from my router Netgear R7800 with final release 21.2.1 all updated installed.

Mon Jan 31 21:05:11 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: AP-STA-DISCONNECTED b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:17 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Mon Jan 31 21:05:17 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 4)
Mon Jan 31 21:05:17 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: AP-STA-CONNECTED b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:17 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 RADIUS: starting accounting session 0AEBD40D426E794D
Mon Jan 31 21:05:17 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Mon Jan 31 21:05:19 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:19 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 Dell-7706
Mon Jan 31 21:05:21 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:21 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 Dell-7706
Mon Jan 31 21:05:25 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:25 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 Dell-7706
Mon Jan 31 21:05:31 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83
Mon Jan 31 21:05:31 2022 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3764]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.177.139 b0:a4:60:3d:1c:83 Dell-7706

That is how it looks like in Windows 11, but there is no internet connection. I have to restart to get it running or sometime if I switch on/off the wifi card multiple times it connects also.

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Does anybody knows how to solve it. Most actual driver from Intel itself is installed.

Cheers,
Nils

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Please define “all updated installed”.

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All software updates via opkg. There was some for eg. hostapd.

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If you reinstall 21.02.1 without updating things, does it work then?

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No, it also does not worked fine with Snapshot builds before that. It is not a new issue, see that for half a year. Bought the Notebook then.

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I don’t know if this is a weird coincidence but it has been more than one reporting this very similar fault on the forum that they have a Windows based wifi computer that gets IP adress, pings work but internet is blocked without reason?

Your router only supports wifi 5 but the computer have wifi 6 hardware.

Do you have some other wifi device like a phone or something that you can test the wifi with?

The next thing is to try different wifi channels and or bandwith to see if anything changes.

Have you tried google on that Intel wifi chip for Windows and that computer? I did buy a Win laptop last year to run Linux on and when I did my research the Intel wifi 6 chip seemed to be a big problem all over the place, there was so many reports that I found another computer with the older Intel wifi 5 chip instead.

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Can you provide links to the threads you're referencing?

We just helped someone recently...but I didn't consider these two threads were related. If it helps, the issue was NAT problem with a IPv6 NATing software.

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I found only this and there it was solved with a new driver. But for it is not gone. I have no issues with any other device also other laptops from Dell but they does not have the AX201 card installed.

I cannot also access the WIFI Router itself. Will run Wireshark and TCP Dump on the router next.