Daughterboard not running on AP

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi

I’ve checked the forums, but I couldn’t find a similar post.

I’m experiencing the following problem on our AP setup - We have a RB532 with an extra daughterboard (can’t recall the model nr now). Regardless, this daughterboard (channel 2) on our AP, stops running.

Despite disabling and re-enabling it, it receives packets for a few seconds and then stops again. Up the yesterday, it was still working fine.

Any ideas?

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are you talking about a daughterboard or a wireless radio?

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I’m guessing it’s the wireless radio.

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Sounds like a bad card.

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After I’ve rebooted the AP, the radio runs again? I’ll take it as a bad card.

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Without knowing your exact configuration both hardware and software it is impossible to form an educated opinion as to what is wrong.

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I’m going to take a wild guess here…

Try unplugging the RB504 daughterboard and carefully re-inserting it onto the RB532…

We’ve had a couple of these where the pins don’t seat properly.

Just our experiance.. painful as it may be (the board might be way up a tower) - bring it down to where you can work properly and try it…

It could be a bad card - but I’ve rarely seen a card absolutely DOA.

T

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I think it was established there is no daughterboard. The OP was confusing daughterboard with wireless card

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Hi Tanker

There is a daughterboard (most likely RB504) hosted with the RB532 routerboard. Just some feedback: The daughterboard sporadically stops running. On rebooting the AP, it starts running again.

It’s either not seated properly (as you indicated); or it could be a faulty card, as we have a second AP with exactly the same setup - but the problem as ascribed has never occured on that particular AP.

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Could be moisture too…

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Yo Hein

Have you checked the power supply to that setup???

What radio cards are plugged into the daughterboard???
Contact me operations[at]radioactivewifi.co.za with your tel number - I’ll call you
We have 50+ of these running in our network and it could be a pile of things that could be bugging that board.

But - it’s (normally) easy to sort out.

Let me know

Tanker