I've recently stumbled upon a forum entry where sb. stated, that the wifi-qcom-ac package has to be installed on the CAPsMAN device for Fast-Transition to work.
Can maybe somebody from Mikrotik comment on this?

I'm currently running a setup with an RB3011-UiAS-RM as the CAPsMAN and using several cAP-ac's and had many issues because the device's roaming messages did not pop up in the system logs. Now they sometimes do, but I had changed some other things and settings in combination with installing the wifi-qcom-ac package on the RB3011-UiAS-RM and thus could not exactly reproduce if I fixed the roaming by installing this package.

Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the documentation about this.


This post is not in the means to clearify why my roaming setup didn't work, I just want to know whether the wifi-qcom-ac package is necessary on the Manager's side.

For FT to work, CAP devices have to run wifi-qcom (or wifi-qcom-ac) driver. Which means ROS 7.13+ and ARM architecture.

As to CAPsMAN device: it has to run ROS 7.13+ as well. But it doesn't have to run wifi-qcom (or wifi-qcom-ac) as these are "only" wireless chipset drivers. Core functionality (which includes capsman) is now part of routeros package and should thus be available on all architectures.

Okay that clarifies my question. Then my first assumption was right and the package contains only the drivers.
Then I must had changed something else in my setup that fixed the roaming problem. Thank you