support for sr71-2 and sr71-5

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi Everyone

I need to know when the routerOS support this ubiquiti cards and what routerboards support it.

Thank you

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It doesn’t support.

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I wish Mikrotik would just go a head and put in the drivers to support the SR71 cards, even if they refuse to get 802.11n working as I understand due to it “being just a draft”. I’ve been to almost every distributor in the US trying to track down an XR2 and they don’t have any, apparently Ubiquiti has a shortage trying to make them, SR71’s are plentiful though and if the drivers were there, I’d be happy to just use them without the n support.

Come on guys, just add the drivers to support the AR9160 so I can run some SR71-2 cards and take care of my problems with not being able to get XR2 cards. I know you’d love to see me have to buy R52H cards since I can’t get XR2’s but I’d rather put my nuts in a vice than fight with any R52H’s so if I have to I’ll do without 2.4 cards.

AR9160 support in RouterOS 3.12, even if you refuse to change your wireless configuration to support the 802.11n and MIMO features, who’s with me?

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Agreed. It would be nice if MT re-focused on their core competencies rather than working on sideshows like virtualization. There are so many manufacturers building ‘N’ systems now that holding off for standards finalization seems a bit weak.

George

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read between the lines…

  • Mikrotik show cased 802.11N support at a previous MUM event
  • Mikrotik have not allowed pressure from the community on 802.11N support
  • Mikrotik are asking what connector they should use on “Next-Gen” wireless cards
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“adding” driver for these cards is the same as “N support”. it’s not possible to add driver for this chipset without making N support.

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normis,

Actually, not really, adding support for the detection of the card and just enabling the 802.11a/b/g features of the card is just like putting a B/G card in with a B only driver in a computer. It will work with the card as long as it knows what the firmware on the card is saying, but the n features (MIMO, etc) don’t need to be enabled. Just update your detection to support the device ID of the SR71 and let it be talked to just like the a/b/g cards from Ubiquiti.

I’d rather guess that you’re right nz_monkey, it seems that they are developing their own product to do combat in the 802.11n segment of the market and hoping that we are all dumb enough to buy the stories on why they won’t support any other 802.11n products at the moment. You would think that at 40+ bucks a pop for the licenses they would be willing to make a few updates to the OS if it meant they could sell more licenses, as I would be buying some more if I could just run the hardware I need.

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Can someone tell me why IkarusOS and StarOS don’t support them ether?

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I would say that everyone is working on 802.11n support and ironing out the bugs so the forum whores don’t flame them when it doesn’t work 100% as they expected.

I have sympathy for the Mikrotik guys, some of the posters on here give very negative and nonconstructive feedback when they are obviously working very hard to deliver the features we all desire.

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I am saying that it would be useless to work on a new driver, and then work Again on N support.