WiFi Radio Issue

[kg4dkf]

I’m a long time wired Mikrotik user who just decided to move my WiFi to Mikrotik. To get started, I bought two CAP-AX APs and am trying to set the first one up using CAPSMAN. My core router/switch is a CRS-328 and I’m connecting the CAP-AX directly to that and configuring CAPSMAN on the 328 as well (and booted into CAP mode). I think I set everything up right, but it doesn’t connect, so I contacted support and they told me that I had the wrong wifi-qcom installed. The 328 did not come with any wireless package, so I had installed that manually by downloading the extra packages zip from the Mikrotik site and using the one called wireless. Both that and the system are on 7.16.1. And the CAP-AX has two packages, one is wifi-qcom and the other is routeros and both are 7.16.1. If I’m reading this right, I just need that wifi-qcom to download and install on the 328, but I can’t find it online.

In case that’s not my problem, I have attached various screenshots of the two systems. I did follow several tutorials and spent about 4 hours getting this set up because (as I already knew from when I first got into Mikrotik) nothing is ever easy with Mikrotik! Many of the screenshots are just the way it is now, In nearly all of them I have tried 10 different options.

[grusu]

Hi,

You don’t need wifi-qcom on 328, only on CAP devices.
And can start from this:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/224559120/WiFi#WiFi-CAPsMAN-CAPsimpleconfigurationexample:

[grusu]

And if you need help, please provide:

/export file=anynameyoulike

[kg4dkf]

I attached exports from both devices. The CAP-AX does have wifi-qcom, so I’m good there. But still they aren’t connecting and they are plugged directly together (ether1 on the 328 to ether1 on the CAP-AX). So if it isn’t a software version issue, then I must have a configuration issue.
crs328.rsc (7.18 KB)
cap-ax.rsc (952 Bytes)

[mkx]

Configuration of CRS refers to old wireless CAPsMAN. You have to configure the new WiFi capsman (there’s a section with such title in document linked by @grusu above). If there’s still wireless package installed on CRS, uninstall it.

[kg4dkf]

Thanks, telling me to delete the wireless was the key… I deleted it and rebooted and now I see the wireless menu with capsman in there. I entered my configuration again, and now the AP is connecting to capsman! And I do see 3 WiFI networks. The only remaining issue is that none of those networks have internet access (and once I fix that, I’ll need to figure out how to set up vlans to segment the guest and IOT traffic so it can get to the internet but not to the rest of my network). I’ll work on those issues tomorrow!

[kg4dkf]

In case anyone is interested, hopefully this thread can help others who have similar problems!

[kg4dkf]

Having trouble attaching the file…

[kg4dkf]

Last attempt
crs328new.rsc (7.52 KB)

[kg4dkf]

I figured out my problem with the internet access was vlan 1 being set on the WuZZaH wifi. So now I’m up and running with the basics…

I still need to figure out VLAN tagging on the guest and IOT wifi networks

And I have a lot of work to do moving my devices over to the new network (I have about 50 computers and 80 smart home devices on the old WiFi).

But I’m satisfied that this will work for me, so I’m going to buy 3 more CAP-AXs and get the infrastructure in place!