Hi all,
So after doing a bit of research here in the forums, I’m going to assume I’m ‘beating a dead horse” (a saying we have here in the US).
But I was hoping to turn a nice little mini pc I’ve got into a RouterOS unit. It has multiple LAN ports and RouterOS installed fine on it. I got everything working except the Wireless. It originally had an Intel Mini PCIe card in it. That’s when I found out they RouterOS doesn’t support Intel. So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find a Atheros based unit that would work in the unit which I did. Got it in this evening and put it in.
The RouterOS is seeing the device in resources, but apparently it doesn’t have drivers for it in the OS. It is a QCA6174. Here are what I think might be all anyone would need to see what the setup is on the mini pc I’m working with.
Is this a fools errand and should I just get a standalone AP and not worry about wireless on the mikrotik unit?
My reason for doing this, is I got one of the newer l009uigs-2haxd-in only to find out that it only supports 2.4 wireless. I was hoping to see some 5Ghz wireless.
Thanks in advance!
Ken
[admin@MikroTik] > /system/resource print
uptime: 1h31m22s
version: 7.20.5 (stable)
build-time: 2025-11-27 08:17:04
factory-software: 7.1
free-memory: 7.5GiB
total-memory: 7.9GiB
cpu: Intel(R)
cpu-count: 4
cpu-frequency: 1596MHz
cpu-load: 0%
free-hdd-space: 118.2GiB
total-hdd-space: 118.2GiB
write-sect-since-reboot: 720
write-sect-total: 720
architecture-name: x86_64
board-name: x86 Intel H81U
platform: MikroTik
Config header:
# 2025-12-03 00:51:06 by RouterOS 7.20.5
# software id = **ELIDED**
Hardware:
Flags: I - inactive
0 location="0000:00:00.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev: 11)" category="Host bridge"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x0a04" irq=0 device-path=""
1 location="0000:00:02.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev: 11)"
category="VGA compatible controller" vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x0a16"
irq=11 memory=0xA7C00000-0xA7FFFFFF,0xB0000000-0xBFFFFFFF io=0x5000-0x503F
device-path=""
2 location="0000:00:03.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev: 11)" category="Audio device"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x0a0c" irq=11 memory=0xA8414000-0xA8417FFF
device-path=""
3 location="0000:00:14.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev: 4)" category="USB controller"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c31" irq=11 memory=0xA8400000-0xA840FFFF
device-path=""
4 location="2-0" parent=0000:00:14.0 type=usb vendor="Linux 5.6.3-64 xhci-hcd"
name="xHCI Host Controller" serial-number="0000:00:14.0" vendor-id="0x1d6b"
device-id="0x0002" speed="480" ports=8 usb-version=" 2.00" irq=0
device-path=bus/usb/002/001
5 location="2-1" parent=2-0 type=usb name="USB 2.0 Hub" vendor-id="0x1a40"
device-id="0x0101" speed="480" ports=4 usb-version=" 2.00" irq=0
device-path=bus/usb/002/002
6 location="2-1.4" parent=2-1 type=usb vendor-id="0x0cf3" device-id="0xe300"
speed="12" usb-version=" 2.01" irq=0 owner="system" device-path=""
7 location="2-5" parent=2-0 type=usb vendor=" " name="mini keyboard"
vendor-id="0x1997" device-id="0x2433" speed="12" usb-version=" 1.10" irq=0
device-path=bus/usb/002/003
8 location="3-0" parent=0000:00:14.0 type=usb vendor="Linux 5.6.3-64 xhci-hcd"
name="xHCI Host Controller" serial-number="0000:00:14.0" vendor-id="0x1d6b"
device-id="0x0003" speed="5000" ports=4 usb-version=" 3.00" irq=0
device-path=bus/usb/003/001
9 location="0000:00:16.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series HECI #0 (rev: 4)" category="Communication controller"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c3a" irq=11 memory=0xA841C000-0xA841C01F
device-path=""
10 location="0000:00:1b.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev: 4)" category="Audio device"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c20" irq=5 memory=0xA8410000-0xA8413FFF
device-path=""
11 location="0000:00:1c.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev: 228)" category="PCI bridge"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c14" speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=11
device-path=""
12 location="0000:01:00.0" parent=0000:00:1c.0 type=pci
vendor="Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
name="RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev: 21)"
category="Ethernet controller" vendor-id="0x10ec" device-id="0x8168"
speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=11
memory=0xA8304000-0xA8304FFF,0xA8300000-0xA83FFFFF io=0x4000-0x4FFF
device-path=""
13 location="0000:00:1c.3" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev: 228)" category="PCI bridge"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c16" speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=10
device-path=""
14 location="0000:02:00.0" parent=0000:00:1c.3 type=pci
vendor="Qualcomm Atheros"
name="QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev: 50)"
category="Network controller" vendor-id="0x168c" device-id="0x003e"
speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=10 memory=0xA8000000-0xA81FFFFF device-path=""
15 location="0000:00:1c.4" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev: 228)" category="PCI bridge"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c18" speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=11
device-path=""
16 location="0000:03:00.0" parent=0000:00:1c.4 type=pci
vendor="Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
name="RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev: 21)"
category="Ethernet controller" vendor-id="0x10ec" device-id="0x8168"
speed="1x2.5 GT/s" irq=11
memory=0xA8204000-0xA8204FFF,0xA8200000-0xA82FFFFF io=0x3000-0x3FFF
device-path=""
17 location="0000:00:1d.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev: 4)" category="USB controller"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c26" irq=10 memory=0xA841A000-0xA841A3FF
device-path=""
18 location="1-0" parent=0000:00:1d.0 type=usb vendor="Linux 5.6.3-64 ehci_hcd"
name="EHCI Host Controller" serial-number="0000:00:1d.0" vendor-id="0x1d6b"
device-id="0x0002" speed="480" ports=2 usb-version=" 2.00" irq=0
device-path=bus/usb/001/001
19 location="1-1" parent=1-0 type=usb vendor-id="0x8087" device-id="0x8000"
speed="480" ports=8 usb-version=" 2.00" irq=0 device-path=bus/usb/001/002
20 location="0000:00:1f.0" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series LPC Controller (rev: 4)" category="ISA bridge"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c45" irq=0 device-path=""
21 location="0000:00:1f.2" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev: 4)"
category="SATA controller" vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c03" irq=10
memory=0xA8419000-0xA84197FF io=0x5060-0x507F device-path=sda2,sda1,sda
22 location="0000:00:1f.3" type=pci vendor="Intel Corporation"
name="8 Series SMBus Controller (rev: 4)" category="SMBus"
vendor-id="0x8086" device-id="0x9c22" irq=11 memory=0xA8418000-0xA84180FF
io=0x5040-0x505F device-path=""
You’d be erasing decades of touching the electric fence to see if it’s on vs using a tester to check for voltage.
Thanks everyone for the insight. And a special thanks to Spock… I mean rextended.
