Fedora 43 Intel 7265 problem

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Hello everyone. I had a new freshly installed (full install, not dual boot) Fedora 43 in Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd Gen. And I have a problem with the wifi, it was detected but having a trouble.

[    7.517069] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x0, cnv-id 0x0 wfpm id 0x0`
[    7.517129] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: PCI dev 095b/5212, rev=0x210, rfid=0xd55555d5`
[    7.517134] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265`
[    7.531992] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 29.3e3b4de5.0 7265D-29.ucode op_mode iwlmvm`
[    8.010910] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: base HW address: 60:57:18:6d:a0:dd, OTP minor version: 0x0`

the problem is when this log is (always) repeated, and I never get access point.

...
[   10.809008] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.
[   10.809258] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
[   10.809259] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Transport status: 0x0000004A, valid: 6
[   10.809261] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 29.3e3b4de5.0 7265D-29.ucode
[   10.809263] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: 0x000014FC | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT
...

Full logs here: https://termbin.com/tpz5

Before wipe everything and install Fedora 43, the Win10 had everything works (include the Wifi), so I guess it’s not hardware fault.

I’ve googled everywhere and try everything ‘SOLVED’ thread it many forum, but it doesn’t works. The only solution for now, I use my other wifi usb dongle to connect my laptop. But I want to try solved this wifi problem.

Thank you.

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Hi Redy,
I did a cursory Google search regarding this error, and I imagine I found the same forum threads you did regarding disabling 11n. So let’s skip to another idea.

Have you tried a liveUSB of another distro, to see if the card functions correctly in Linux in general? There’s a possibility it could have a compatibility error, however slight.

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Hi J B stormscape, nice to meet you.

Many solution with modprobe.d doesn’t work at all.

And mentioning Live USB, I’ve tried several (or maybe too many): Debian, Q4OS, Sparky, Mint, LMDE, MX25, Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, AlmaLinux, OpenSUSE, and this Fedora 43 is the last one installed. They all have the same error logs, same problem.

The only LiveCD that has wifi detected and working is FreeBSD 15, but I can’t just use FreeBSD (yet) because of my environment hardware compatibility.

So I assume that it’s the firmware problem, not hardware fault.

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Yes, it unfortunately sounds like a firmware issue possibly specific to your notebook.