Qotom-Q3XXG4-P no wireless under network tab

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
1

So I am trying to use the following device as a router

I have been following this guide:

which seems equivalent to this one

Finally I followed this one

Installation went fine, and I added the following packages hostapd kmod-ath9k ath9k-htc-firmware
However, even after multiple reboots there is still no wireless tab under networks. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Unsure which logs you are looking for but here are some of the specs

root@OpenWrt:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev e4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev e4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)

Some more network info

root@OpenWrt:~# ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br-lan state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:62:31:00:50:7e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:62:31:00:50:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:62:31:00:50:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:62:31:00:50:81 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: br-lan: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:62:31:00:50:7e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Happy to provide more info, but currently unsure which logs / error messages you need. I have tried my best looking at the wiki, but nothing quite seems to hit my exact configuration.

Thanks in advance

2

Hope you want to use it as a wireless client, because AP's a no go with Intel.

The ath9k packages you've installed have nothing to do with the intel card.

3

Yes, I want to use it purely as a wireless router. I was able to get up the wireless page by installing kmod-iwlwifi and iwlwifi-firmware-ax200. This gets up the page, but it still does not seem to be able to read my card. The radio 0 shows

Generic MAC80211 802.11acaxbgn

Channel: auto (? GHz) | Bitrate: ? Mbit/s

And this of course does not enable me to add any wireless networks

4

Unless you enjoy 11n speeds, replace it.

5

Sorry english is not my first language, nor am I very experienced with networking. What does "11n speeds" mean? What does "AP's a no go with Intel"? And "Replace it" what the entire computer, the network card?

6

802.11n speeds, so N wifi.

Replace network card, although I'd replace the whole thing, the CPU's 10 years old.

7

What would be an useful card to use? I already have installed an ipv6 card in the machine

8

Depends on what the slot looks like, if it's m.2 or mPCIe, the spec at Amazon says mPCIe.
Assuming it's correct, this would work.

IPv6 isn't a hw thing.

9

I do have an old router lying around, could I be running openwrt on the small pc and then control the router from it?

10

Yes, and use the old router for the wifi, configured as dumb AP.