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Not sure if this 100% goes here but I'm relatively new to the self hosting world. Please advise if this needs to be moved elsewhere and I will.

I recently picked up a beelink mini PC and have been running Proxmox for things like jellyfin, home assistant, etc.

I'm looking to set up OpenWRT and found a helper script that sets up the VM but I'm having issues being able to configure wireless. According to the official docs, wireless is off by default if there are eth ports. When I go to edit it, both in the LuCl and in the /etc/config/wireless file, I hit 2 issues:

  1. The web client doesn't have a wireless option.
  2. There is no wireless file In the config directory.

I tried looking for some solutions online but wasn't sure what was exactly specific for me. I wasn't sure if this was a hardware issue or a Proxmox/OpenWRT config issue. Any advice on this?

Side note: My thoughts were I could use the internal wi-fi adapter for wireless but would I need a USB adapter of some sort for this capability?

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It would be fun as an experiment, but often using wifi adapters as an AP generally doesn't work that well. Most of us are running an external AP such as Unifi hardware.

As far as getting this working, have you done the passthrough setup on the VM for the wifi adapter?

And have you confirmed that OpenWRT supports your wifi adapter?

[–] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both great questions. I did not check the hardware and I definitely should have..as far as passthrough I have not. I really only ran the helper script to install the Proxmox VM and configurations. I'll have to check the settings when I'm back home to see what exactly it did.

Yeah start with pass through, without that no physical hardware will show up inside the VM