Can I use my Intel Wireless 9260 with OpenWrt?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

I have a Intel Wireless 9260 card and hope I can use to create VM which is using that Intel card. I only found the iwl8265 package but not the iwl9260.

is it possible or just too much work? If yes how can I add the firmware manually?

Thanks!

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi

2

In client mode, yes (as you noticed, you may have to supply the firmware yourself) - but probably only in client (STA-) mode. Intel usually doesn't support AP mode in the 2.4 GHz band - and never supports it in the 5 GHz band.

3

Yes, you need to install kmod-iwlwifi
But the firmware does not have a package yet in OpenWrt altough linux-firmware supplies it.
So adding a simple package here is needed:

4

i know that this post is old but i am just now dealing with this. can you explain in more detail how to add this intel.mk / 9260 support to openwrt? do you have re compile kmod-iwlwifi with this code before installing?

also, has anyone figured out how to use 9260 in AP mode at 5ghz?

6

You can just drop the firmware blobs into place (usually /lib/firmware), the driver will then pick it up.

No personal experience with AP mode on Intel cards, no idea if drivers support it either.

7

I would also like to know the answer to this question. Will be sticking to this thread.

8

AP mode for AC 5ghz 80 mhz on channel 149 works for me now on debian 10. One needs to disable and enable the wifi card while being connected to a router to get the proper country either US or DE and then enable the AP mode. See https://github.com/oblique/create_ap/pull/424

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9

hostpad.conf for 80 mhz channels. It seems to work only on 36 firmware for my AC 8265.

eacon_int=100
ssid=
interface=
driver=nl80211
channel=149
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
ap_isolate=0
country_code=US
ieee80211d=1
hw_mode=a
ieee80211n=1
ht_capab=[HT40+][DSSS_CCK-40][LDPC][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40]
ieee80211ac=1
vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx=155
vht_oper_chwidth=1
vht_capab=[MAX-MPDU-3895][RXLDPC][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][SHORT-GI-80][TX-STBC-2BY1][SU-BEAMFORMEE][MU-BEAMFORMEE]
wmm_enabled=1
wpa=2
wpa_psk=
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
10

Hi,
is this card "dual radio" - capable of simultaneous AP 2.4 and 5G?
Can someone post hostapd.conf with both bands?
Thanks