I am trying to plan a migration from some of our devices running OpenWRT with this card in.
Every other device works fine (LTE card, NICs, etc.) but wireless is still an issue.
It is detected and no error is showing when I activate and configure it but it does not work (nothing is detected in scans for exemple)
I tried a few older versions (but stayed on ROS 7) but it seems to be the same.
Do you think it can be done ?
A correct licence is installed (it is necessary to activate the wireless interfaces)
AR9280 seems to be problematic, another older thread about it: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/ar9280-low-speed/62030/1
I think it may be down to radio EEPROM contents, the ROS wireless implementation is rather specific to work just with Mikrotik hardware and it may need some extra data/fields in there.
Best would be to compare EEPROM dumps from radio that works and one that doesn’t using https://github.com/rsa9000/atheepmgr
Update:
I just checked rb711-5hn board that does have AR9280 radio on it and there is NO EEPROM connected to it at all. Maybe WLE200NX would run without it?
If you are feeling adventurous just shorting clock/data pins should make it unreadable…
Here is FCC report for WLE200NX including schematics: https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/TK4-10-WLE200NX