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Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:03 pm

Hi,
Fortunately, I found my cap ac is with 256M RAM, so I decided to try the 7.1beta4 with wave2.

But somehow I cannot install the extra package of wifiwave2, reboot for a couple of times and it still cannot installed.

Anyone who has install the wave2 successfully on cap ac with 256M RAM ?

Thank you !
[brg3466@AP-MBR] > /system resource/pr
                   uptime: 5m34s
                  version: 7.1beta4 (development)
               build-time: Feb/03/2021 09:39:15
         factory-software: 6.40.3
              free-memory: 200.6MiB
             total-memory: 256.0MiB
                      cpu: ARMv7
                cpu-count: 4
            cpu-frequency: 716MHz
                 cpu-load: 0%
           free-hdd-space: 500.0KiB
          total-hdd-space: 15.2MiB
  write-sect-since-reboot: 566
         write-sect-total: 507042
               bad-blocks: 0%
        architecture-name: arm
               board-name: cAP ac
                 platform: MikroTik
[brg3466@AP-MBR] > /system package pr
Flags: X - DISABLED
Columns: NAME, VERSION
  #     NAME       VERSION 
  0     routeros   7.1beta4
  1  X  wifiwave2  7.1beta4
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:56 pm

Surely log has something regarding failed package installation?
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:41 am

My bad, I forgot to check the log !

Since it didn't work, I downgraded to 6.47.9 and restore the backup as a CAP (managed by CAPsMAN) after several failed trials on wave2.

I really hope there is a successful case out there with the 256M RAM cAP ac. :-)
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:47 am

There was a discussion about required HW for wave2 drivers and disk size larger than 16MB was IIRC one of them. Supported devices (Audience, hAP ac3) have 128MB storage ...
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:17 am

Probably it is because of the 16M storage size. The official documents said " it is required at least 10M free space" . cAP ac has total of 16M storage , most likely , there is no 10M left for wave2 package.
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sat Mar 06, 2021 3:18 pm

Also isn't the new wifi package incompatible with Caps-Man?

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WifiWave2
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:48 pm

@gotsprings,
Thank you for the reminder ! I noticed that it is not compatible with CAPsMAN before I tried to install the wave2. My problem is that I even cannot install the wave2 package on the device.
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:09 pm

The actual firmware / kernel modul for IPQ40xx based devices (like cAP ac) would small enough to fit in a smaller wifiwave2 package which could be used on e.g. cAP ac with its 16MB of ROM. Unfortunately MikroTik hasn´t released anything like this.
Custom tools for creating your own *.npk packages (like https://github.com/kost/mikrotik-npk) don´t work unfortunately.
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:19 pm

Let’s see if Mikrotik is willing to do something about it. Would be nice if the existing products out there could take the advantage of wave2.
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:50 am

Let’s see if Mikrotik is willing to do something about it. Would be nice if the existing products out there could take the advantage of wave2.
You mean a 6 year old ratification?
 
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Re: Anyone who successfully install wifiwave2 on cAP ac with 256M RAM ?

Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:31 pm

Let’s see if Mikrotik is willing to do something about it. Would be nice if the existing products out there could take the advantage of wave2.
Thats the point brg, you will absolutely be able to use wifi5 proper implementation of wave2, with Capac2, which has not been released yet ;-P
Dont hold your breath! If they do it will be around the time all other vendors have cleaned up their initial wifi6 releases.

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