[SOLVED] Gigabyte WBA X200 how to connect?

[dennnic]

Hello, I'm having a hard time using the wifi6 board from the thread name above.

Bluetooth works, but no hints of wifi.

The card is installed in x16 PCI Express socket and its connected to F USB for power. There's one more USB A connector on it, but, so far, no clue what for. I've spent about a month in ubuntu trying to figure out the problem. Just installed Windows 10 and the same problematics again, no wireless adapter. Drivers didn't make any difference.

As far as my logic goes, it must be:

1. PCI Express x16 has compatibility issues?
2. The card is dead?
3. I'm curious about that unused usb....

Thanks in advance

 

[kerberos_20]

hi, bluetooth on wifi card is connected to USB, that card has 2 choise on how to connect your bluetooth
either from f_usb (front usb) which connects to mainboard usb ports ment for front panel
or from b_usb (back usb) which connects to usb ports located at back side of your mainboard
connecting one of them will make your bluetooth working, its separate from wifi
as for wifi, that one runs from PCIe slot, card compatibility relies on mainboard design and bios support / bios settings
x16 slots on mainboard are reserved for GPUs (first slot) and second being for GPU or storage
compatibility with other devices might warry (mainboard design / bios)
your mainboard doesnt have pcie x1 slots?

 

[dennnic]

hi, bluetooth on wifi card is connected to USB, that card has 2 choise on how to connect your bluetooth
either from f_usb (front usb) which connects to mainboard usb ports ment for front panel
or from b_usb (back usb) which connects to usb ports located at back side of your mainboard
connecting one of them will make your bluetooth working, its separate from wifi
as for wifi, that one runs from PCIe slot, card compatibility relies on mainboard design and bios support / bios settings
x16 slots on mainboard are reserved for GPUs (first slot) and second being for GPU or storage
compatibility with other devices might warry (mainboard design / bios)
your mainboard doesnt have pcie x1 slots?

Unfortunatelly no, its a mini ITX board. So I'm stuck with an incompatible card? Is there some kind of adapter or other way around it?

 

[kerberos_20]

which mainboard

 

[dennnic]

which mainboard

MSI h81 mini itx

 

[VAROV]

Hello i have a gigabyte wbax200 aswell. my bluetooth and wifi works good but im not getting any wifi speed change im getting around 30-80 using it, its connected to a asus prime a520-e mother board and its connected to usb_12 because i dont have f_usb

 

[bill001g]

What kind of router do you have. If it is also not wifi6 that card will just drop back to support the older forms of wifi. Also make sure you are connecting on the 5g radio wifi6 doesn't really run any faster than older stuff on 2.4

 

[dennnic]

It's an old router, doesn't even have 5Ghz band... I've started the upgrading process with a wifi card.
Update - I've installed Windows as a dual boot, and gues what, no clues of Wifi adapter anywhere. I doubt it has anything to do with software, it's either a compatibility issue with pcie x16, or the card is defective.

 

[dennnic]

Is it possible that I missed some connection somewhere? It's plugged in PCIe and FUsb

 

[kerberos_20]

Is it possible that I missed some connection somewhere? It's plugged in PCIe and FUsb

its connected correctly, in this case its mainboard bios compatibility issue

 

[bill001g]

I see I misunderstood you must have 2 different computers. It not working at all is far different than it running slower than you want.

In general a card should run in any slot it will fit in. It is not optimal to put a wifi card in a slot designed for a video card but it should work. Generally even with no drivers you can see the device.

Maybe first test would be to see what the card does in a another machine. This would tell you if the card itself is bad or not. There are all kinds of messy restrictions on which pci slots share the machines resources. I tend to not read these much because most my machines do not have a lot of cards installed. From what I could tell it would just perform poorly not that the card would show up in the OS.

 

[gggplaya]

We have to keep in mind that the AX200 wifi chip may not be compatible with all motherboard chipsets of this vintage: https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...0057689/wireless/intel-wireless-products.html

I would try updating your motherboard bios and all chipset drivers.

 

[bill001g]

We have to keep in mind that the AX200 wifi chip may not be compatible with all motherboard chipsets of this vintage: https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...0057689/wireless/intel-wireless-products.html

I would try updating your motherboard bios and all chipset drivers.

That sure is a poorly written article in some ways. It talks about the GNVio stuff but that card is ax201 and talking about a restriction on a different card in a article for the ax200 is just going to confuse people who didn't already know about the issue with the ax201 card. But it doesn't really explain what would make a motherboard incompatible with a card that uses PCIe.

 

[kerberos_20]

We have to keep in mind that the AX200 wifi chip may not be compatible with all motherboard chipsets of this vintage: https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...0057689/wireless/intel-wireless-products.html

I would try updating your motherboard bios and all chipset drivers.

that CNVi thing might not be related to his wifi card, gigabyte doesnt mention CNVi
there are two versions, one CNVi with key E m.2 and second normal m2 E+A

here on picture you can see E+A version which is also used in his WBA X200
that card just isnt compatible with PCIE slots x16, google is full of it, card manuals also mentions to insert it in x1 slot

 

[dennnic]

that CNVi thing might not be related to his wifi card, gigabyte doesnt mention CNVi
there are two versions, one CNVi with key E m.2 and second normal m2 E+A

here on picture you can see E+A version which is also used in his WBA X200
that card just isnt compatible with PCIE slots x16, google is full of it, card manuals also mentions to insert it in x1 slot

I had a different one, where you screw it on the back of the case (mounts similar to a graphic card.)
Either way, I've returned the card as 'defective' unit and they accepted it! Might be something wrong with the chip after all.

Thank you all for answering!