ZEN Imaging - Intel network controller on Lenovo X1 Carbon not recognized

  • 7023811
  • 09-Apr-2019
  • 16-Nov-2020

Environment

ZENworks Configuration Management 2017 Update 4 Imaging

Situation

Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop booted via PXE does not have network connection.
The command

img -i -h

shows unknown device 0x24fd

Resolution

The device affected is shown by hwinfo as

24: PCI 400.0: 0280 Network controller
 [Created at pci.374]
 Unique ID: YmUS.KmYAM8YjX26
 Parent ID: hoOk.sDmAgUEcbx2
 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0
 SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
 Hardware Class: network
 Model: "Intel Network controller"
 Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
 Device: pci 0x24fd
 SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
 SubDevice: pci 0x0130
 Revision: 0x88
 Memory Range: 0xec100000-0xec101fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
 IRQ: 255 (no events)
 Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000024FDsv00008086sd00000130bc02sc80i00"
 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
 Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)

Please load the driver using kernel parameter

newid="0x8086 0x24fd,iwlwifi"

Please see also
https://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=3421576