ASUS wifi driver nightmare

Hi friends,

I recently made the full-switch from windows, and have mostly enjoyed my time on Fedora. The one thing that’s really causing me a lot of problems however is that my wifi speeds are somewhere around 90-90% slower. I’m using my old TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) from ASUS, and they don’t seem to have local linux wifi chipset driver support. I’m hoping someone might have a workaround? I’m having to start large downloads before i go to sleep… it feels like 2007 all over again :cry:

thanks!
:kissing:

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It looks like the motherboard has an Intel Wireless-AC 9260, which seems to be a little problematic under Linux and maybe more so with certain distributions.

I would check to see if the iwlegacy-firmware, iwlwifi-dvm-firmware and iwlwifi-mvm-firmware packages are installed and are up-to-date.

If connecting via wireless is a must, it might be better to find an Intel AX200 or AX201-based wireless controller as a PCIe add-on card.

all packages installed and up to date, and im out of PCIe slots… i might just have to endure crappy speeds for a few years until i update i guess :cry:

Use a USB WiFi dongle?

I went ahead and took your advice, and chose one of the supported USB adapters from here:

Ended up with the NETGEAR AXE3000. Speeds are 50-60% faster than before.

thanks! :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much for your feedback. That helps others!

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You might want to try making certain that the iwlwiwfi firmware / microcode is up to date. Check for this file:

/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.xz

And here is the link from Intel specifically for the iwlwifi ucode/firmware:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/wireless.html