Mikrotik routerboard 532 2.9.6
I have a Prizm card and a Atheros card in the same router but I connot get any kind of encryption to work on the prism card. If i use the same security profile on the atheros card i get WEP to work. Any idea way i cannot get WEP to work on the Prism ?
Thank you
Prism card do not support WPA only wep key
Mentor.
I’m having the same problem with 2.9.6 and the Prism 200mW cards. The AP was originally setup with a CM9 and 104bit WEP … which was operating but due to the lack of coverage I decided to change out the cards in both the AP and SU configured MT’s. After correcting all of the interface associations to IP addresses and the MAC’s in the access-list, I could not get clients to associate to the AP as long as the security profile configured for WEP was selected on the client side. After noting this I scanned for wireless networks on my laptop and the AP shows up as “Unsecured Wireless Network,” even though a security profile is still active on the AP configured MT. I’ve duplicated the senerio in the shop and have not been able to figure this out… Any help that anyone can provide would be most appreciated.
I have came to the conclusion that Prism card dont support any type of encryption. Switch to Atheros and all will be well
Thanks for the suggestion, but since I don’t have any other 200mW+ cards atm and I have about 10 MikroTiks with this configuration, I’m gonna keep fighting it a bit longer. If I find anything out I’ll post it.
please look at this note:
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/interface/wireless.content#4.13.16.4
Well I guess that answers that. Thanks for that bit of info there, you saved me alot of wasted time. I’ll just deal with these cards until I get some of the Atheros cards in.
Interesting punt. I wonder what workaround other manufacturers came up with for all the Prism-based products that --do-- properly support WEP?
We just spent $500 and a full day having a tree climber replace a Cisco 350 AP/bridge (which uses a Prism chipset) w/ a Mikrotik integrated AP/backhaul radio (the 19dBi panel gizmo) that came equipped --by Mikrotik-- w/ a Prism card. Little did we realize before installing this thing that it would not work with the 25 or so client radios that use the AP.
Yeah, right, WEP is antiquated, weak, etc. but the fact is there are a lot of networks out there (ours included) that were built before WPA became available. Scurrying around to hundreds of customer premises to adjust settings or for that matter completely replace radios is just not practical. A product that does not support WEP is useless in a lot of older networks.
Sure, we should have done more testing, but somehow we did not suspect that MT would sell a product with an unsupported radio. A blemish on an otherwise great record. MT’s note regarding the broken state of Prism support should be displayed more prominently.
Anyway, MT we still love ya but now we’re going to have to have that tree climber go back up and pull the rig down so we can swap out the Prism card with something that works. $500 and a week of downtime to get on the arborist’s schedule, sigh.
BTW, does anybody know if RADIUS mac authentication will work in conjunction w/a Prism card or is that broken as well?
Well the fine folks at WISP-Router sure sold me 532 with a riser and 3 prism cards installed and saw no reason to mention this.
After waiting for overnight shipment, rushing from my office to climb the tower an hour away to replace 3 tranzeo ap’s on a 120 foot tower with a sleek all in one rb, getting downstairs to see clients connecting…and then spening 6 hours trying to figure out why they do not pass traffic… I find this post.
I even called the wisp-router tech support an hour before they closed, no answer - voice mail. I called again at six, someone answered, but he was in a hurry to get off the phone and tried to blame tranzeo client equipment. Call back in the morning.
I thought I would get great service from these guys, there are one of the few Mikrotik authorized dealers.
Oh wait, they also mounted the rb to the enclosure with 3 posts instead of the 4 they drilled because the holes they drilled did not line up, they drilled some clamp holes in the enclosure flange too, that damaged the outer case and made it impossible to mount the included mounting kit.
Did I mention that they always mount their rb’s so close to the enclosure opening that you have to take out the rb to install ethernet.