Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi,
Fortunately, I found my cap ac is with 256M RAM, so I decided to try the 7.1beta4 with wave2.

But somehow I cannot install the extra package of wifiwave2, reboot for a couple of times and it still cannot installed.

Anyone who has install the wave2 successfully on cap ac with 256M RAM ?

Thank you !

[brg3466@AP-MBR] > /system resource/pr
                   uptime: 5m34s
                  version: 7.1beta4 (development)
               build-time: Feb/03/2021 09:39:15
         factory-software: 6.40.3
              free-memory: 200.6MiB
             total-memory: 256.0MiB
                      cpu: ARMv7
                cpu-count: 4
            cpu-frequency: 716MHz
                 cpu-load: 0%
           free-hdd-space: 500.0KiB
          total-hdd-space: 15.2MiB
  write-sect-since-reboot: 566
         write-sect-total: 507042
               bad-blocks: 0%
        architecture-name: arm
               board-name: cAP ac
                 platform: MikroTik
[brg3466@AP-MBR] > /system package pr
Flags: X - DISABLED
Columns: NAME, VERSION
  #     NAME       VERSION 
  0     routeros   7.1beta4
  1  X  wifiwave2  7.1beta4
2

Surely log has something regarding failed package installation?

3

My bad, I forgot to check the log !

Since it didn’t work, I downgraded to 6.47.9 and restore the backup as a CAP (managed by CAPsMAN) after several failed trials on wave2.

I really hope there is a successful case out there with the 256M RAM cAP ac. :slight_smile:

4

There was a discussion about required HW for wave2 drivers and disk size larger than 16MB was IIRC one of them. Supported devices (Audience, hAP ac3) have 128MB storage …

5

Probably it is because of the 16M storage size. The official documents said " it is required at least 10M free space" . cAP ac has total of 16M storage , most likely , there is no 10M left for wave2 package.

6

Also isn’t the new wifi package incompatible with Caps-Man?

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WifiWave2

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@gotsprings,
Thank you for the reminder ! I noticed that it is not compatible with CAPsMAN before I tried to install the wave2. My problem is that I even cannot install the wave2 package on the device.

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The actual firmware / kernel modul for IPQ40xx based devices (like cAP ac) would small enough to fit in a smaller wifiwave2 package which could be used on e.g. cAP ac with its 16MB of ROM. Unfortunately MikroTik hasn´t released anything like this.
Custom tools for creating your own *.npk packages (like https://github.com/kost/mikrotik-npk) don´t work unfortunately.

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Let’s see if Mikrotik is willing to do something about it. Would be nice if the existing products out there could take the advantage of wave2.

10

You mean a 6 year old ratification?

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Thats the point brg, you will absolutely be able to use wifi5 proper implementation of wave2, with Capac2, which has not been released yet :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Dont hold your breath! If they do it will be around the time all other vendors have cleaned up their initial wifi6 releases.