Once I enabled Wave 2 drivers… No more caps-man.
Also access control lists didn’t work anymore in standalone mode.
On that same Help page from Mikrotik related to wifiwave2, in a red box so hard to miss…
Installing the wifiwave2 package disables other means of configuring wireless interfaces.
Before installation, make sure to back up any wireless and CAPsMAN configuration you may want to retain.
Ohh I knew it was going to happen. But the point was… the WAVE 2 driver affected the 2.4.
Also the breaking of my ACLs was not helpful, at all.
Yes I also won’t/can’t look at wifiwave2 package until capsman supports it.
Maybe Mikrotik will allow to work Wave2 for 5Ghz and non Wave2 2.4Ghz at the same time?
I wouldn’t put any money on that happening.
I’m dreaming of a wifiwave2 driver package for IPQ4018/IPQ4019 based MikroTik access points like hAP ac2 and cAP ac with 128 MB of RAM and 16 MB of ROM. Looking into the current big wifiwave2 driver package it should be possible to extract all IPQ40xx parts and provide a smaller wifiwave2 lite package for older devices.
Any news about this topic?
Is it any plans to enable 2ghz wifi with wave2 drivers?
I wouldn’t count on it. The current status looks like you have to buy “new” (less old) hardware to benefit from wifiwave2, with rb4011 or hap ac2 you are stuck with the old driver.
Unless MT releases stable, good performing WiFi-6(E) hardware, I will not spend any more money on their wifi stuff.
Just get over it and pick a different manufacture for wifi.
You will get much better results.
Hello
any news as of 7.6 on 4011?
if we enable the wave2 drivers, can we have standard wifi on 2.4ghz ?
I used with success the hap ac3 with wave2 drivers and everything works perfect.
I have 4011 in production and I cannot just make tests on 4011.
anyone has 4011 and wave2 drivers?
does it work correctly also the 2.4g?
thank you
Edit:
Removed as it was over the top.
My apologies.
Don’t be so negative, we do have WiFi 6 devices.
MikroTk previously did not make plug-n-play home devices for average Joes. Our drivers were custom made for professional use, they had tons of features no chinese manufacturer has. This is why WiFi 5-wave2 drivers are so different, they are the chip manufacturer drivers with no extra functionality.
So we don’t mind.
The question is to add to ROS 7 the ability to work the old driver for one interface wlan and wifiwave2 for the other interface, if these interfaces wlan on different chips.
I understand correctly? Will the new wireless drivers (and the new capsman) only be compatible with the new wifi 6 hardware? And in the future there will be two “branches” of ROS - for wifi 6 devices and for the “rest of the old”?
I hope you do not understand it correctly! 
I obviously don´t know this but I would love to have a mix of ax and ac devices configured the same way soon and using just one single CapsMAN.
Everything else would be a mess and I’m afraid in the end it will turn out to be a mess…
Hello, it’s very very simple:
Read the ROS release notes
Only when it says:
“2.4G wifi available with WW2 driver on RB 4011 unit” - however implemented
Before that, there are exactly ZERO possibilities
Only the following options:
- Use WiFi (both 2.4G and 5G) from another manufacturer and the RB4011 only for routing (all WiFi devices off)
- Use WW2 and use another manufacturer for 2.4G
- Use WW2 and use a small MT device (mAP lite) on port ETH10 via PoE for 2.4G
4.Don’t use WW2 on RB4011 - wifi 2.4G and wifi5G with the old driver - Wait - wait - a long time and hope!
Greetings and a good start into the new year 2023
It’s all a bit confusing. and from the documentation, NV2 and station-bridge are not supported with wave2 driver? I see hap ax, but no netmetal AX. Dear Mtik, we really need this. Many of us have lots of AC stuff out there, but will loose competitive edge against other operators soon if we cannot deliver 200-1400 mbps to clients over5gHz x 320mHz channels QAM4096 with AX up to 7gbps AP capacity, as other vendors are now advertising. Sadly, I’ve waited long enough and had to spend money with another vendors wireless product this spring for my Short range offering. I like 60gHz, until it rains or a bird lands on the stamp sized antenna. I plan to utilize 60 for short short range, but 5 gig is better where there might be a bush or partial tree obstruction. We have 4 sites with adequate backhaul or fiber, where we are putting in High density systems for up to 200 home subdivisions. I’d rather spend the money for a device with ROS, but I’ll have to do what is necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace.
Is there any definite release date for an outdoor, Mimo 2 or 4 AX Netmetal or Basebox with SFP+?, and TDMA/NV2?
With Love,
Andy
Hello
I’m using the existing topic .
How to get working Wave2 on AC 5Ghz ?
Can you help me to adjust the settings ?
Now I’m using the old wifi and I’m pissed because I cannot get more than 110Mbps using the AC network no matter what kind of configuration I’m trying.
Basically:
- upgrade to ROS 7.13.2
If you want to avoid netinstall, then upgrade path is via 7.12 - when on 7.13.2, uninstall wireless package and install wifi-qcom-ac (part of extras)
- configure wifi from scratch, new config layout doesn’t resemble the old config layout, so forget the idea of copy-paste anything from your current wireless config
Use https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WiFi as reference. And definitely configure wifi channels as the Tx power of channels which ROS seems to prefer (upper part of 5.7GHz region) is often limited to low values. - if you need some concrete help with settings, come back (showing what you’ll have when you get stuck)