cap ax3 unable to connect to cap manager on RB751G

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Hi,
my understanding is that CAP devices should be able to work with any cap manager as long as you got a license level 4 at least.
I have setup a RB751 G that I had laying around cause I wanted to try to configure a caps networks, according to howto’s that looked kind of simple.
I have my RB 751 G with latest stable firmware, had it setup just followed a youtube walk walkthrough from Mikrotik.
My setup is donde like this setup
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1409149#APController(CAPsMAN)-SimplesetupofaCAPsMANsystem

I got it setup so it’s has configured it’s own wifi interface and that is provisioned and working.
I have tried to do the simplest setup on caps ax3 (boot with reset jumper), configured cap with winbox, pointing out the capsmanager ip with dhcp server and static IP in caps ax3, but no joy at all.
If I manually set caps to active, the wireless interfaces does not go to managed by caps manager.
Any suggestions how to troubleshoot and resolve this?

/Lennart

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RB750G must have installed wifi-qcom package too!

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Hi,

Thanks, where do I find that?
I suppose that it must match version for os

/Lennart

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So replying to my own question, there are no wifi-qcom to MIPSBE. Probably because there’s no such chip.
I had version 6.49.3 that had a caps menu in winbox, not so much in ver 7.15.2.
I had to download all packages and install the wireless npk to get thet functionality back.
But still no joy with caps and capsmanager

/Lennart

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In contemporary ROS versions (v7.13 and onwards) there are two capsman versions available:

  • legacy capsman, which is part of (legacy) wireless package
    This capsman can control devices running legacy wireless drivers, i.e. all but AX devices and AC devices (which run wifi-qcom-ac driver) … it’s backwards compatible and should work fine with CAP devices running ROS v6.
  • wifi capsman, which is since ROS v7.13 part of core package and thus available without installing any optional package
    as hinted in previous bullet, it only works with modern CAP devices running new wifi-qcom (or wifi-qcom-ac) drivers. This driver pack is (more or less) available since ROS v7.13 and is thus useless in combination with CAP devices running older ROS.

So what to install and how to configure mostly depends on actual mix of devices you’re planning to use (apart from RB750G).

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No driver available for mipsbe for now! You can run the new capsman transparently on cap ax with old version capsman on RB750G together!

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can wifi capsman be run on a mipsbe device?

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Sure (comes with 7.13 and up), but it won’t be able to manage its own wireless interfaces.

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Actually it can since you can run both versions of capsman on the same device.
And because base hooks for wave2 are present in ROS package since 7.13, you don't need to fiddle with wifi drivers so local legacy radios remain available.