Getting Intel AX 210 WiFi card to work in Hyper-V VM

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hey everyone,

I'm working on installing OpenWRT in a Hyper-V VM without internet access. I downloaded the x64 image, converted it to VHDX, and booted the VM successfully. I can access LuCI and SSH.

The plan is to connect the VM to the internet using a passthrough Wi-Fi card (Intel AX 210). I can see the Wi-Fi card in dmesg, but it’s not showing up as an interface. I’ve also manually installed the iwlwifi-firmware-ax210 package, but that hasn’t resolved the issue.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the Wi-Fi card recognized as an interface? Thanks.

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is this card supposed to be used as an AP, or wireless client ?

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It should be a client for my home router (but I do have plans for it to be used as AP which I'll implement later)

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What do you see in lspci (from pciutils) in vm? Any mentions of iwlwifi in boot log?

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The driver only supports client mode. Intel cards cannot be used as an AP on OpenWrt.

X86 builds include no WiFi packages by default. You will need to install the whole stack. I think the list is:

  • card firmware if needed.
  • card kmod
  • cfg80211
  • iw and iwinfo
  • wpad or wpa-supplicant with ssl library

These will bring in several other packages as dependencies.

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