MikroTik. WinBox. Wireless. Take TWO. How to configure?

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Finally got my hands on my hAP AX3 router, which I’m configuring to replace my home router.

I’m following guides on
The basic setup (wan-lan-bridge-firewall-nat) is passed (I hope).

And went to the part of “now go to Wireless tab”. There was no wireless tab, so I installed it through System>Packages>wireless.

But it doesn’t have any interfaces.

But(2) there is a tab called “WiFi”, which has the interfaces. I looked through the options, and it seems a bit complex to do it through there.

Any help?

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That one is configured, but I have a strange case. Out of all my wireless devices, I have two running android 12 and 13. They can connect to the wifi (both 5ghz and 2.4), but cannot access the internet.

They are pingable from lan. But cannot ping them from the router.

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Ok, this needs a bit of historical context:

Up to wifi 5, the settings have been called “wireless”. But with the development of the functions for wifi 6, they ran into issues with the core of the wireless module. So they decided to rewrite it from scratch and call it “WiFi” instead. This is backwards compatible with most “AC” devices, but not all… For the hAP ax³, you need the “WiFi” menu.

Here is the documentation, though that does also show screenshots with the old menu label.
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WiFi

And for an easy to follow basic tutorial, which uses your ax³ as an example, you can watch this video from MikroTik’s youtube channel:

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IIRC you need wifi-qcom-x.xx.x-arm.npk from ARM extra packages.
It is running on Qualcomm Dragonwing IPQ-6010.
There is also AC version something like wifi-qcom-ac-x.xx.x-arm.npk, but you need ax for that one.

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The WiFi module is installed by default on their device, because they have a hAP ax³. So no modules need to be installed.
The documentation isn’t quite clear about that though… Probably because out in the wild, there are loads more older devices which still need the Wireless menu instead of the WiFi menu :sweat:

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Many thanks.

Yesterday I’ve learned 4 things:

  1. That WiFi is a new implementation.
  2. That you can install ‘wireless’, but it wont find interfaces.
  3. Reset to defaults with no def. conf. (I was trying to figure out a problem with static dns) also drops the qcom package (luckily I googled what was missing…lesson learned).

And the most thing of the (its almost midnight, and just now I finally figured it out) - ‘/24’ on the dhcp server, or ‘how 2 out of somewhere to 10 wireless devices, running android 12 and 13 could connect to the wifi, access devices from the network, but not the internet… and also could not be pinged from the router’.

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Nono, vivante’s right (although this could’be been caused by me doing a full reset). Had to install the package in order to see the wifi interfaces.

I’ve seen this tutorial. But it did not work for me - I was getting an error with 3 fields missing, “Master”(solved by qcom package), “Configuration” and something else. Although, later on people pointed me that those fields were redundant.

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I had some issues after a reset on one of those ax3 devices, after that I had to do full wipe with Netinstall.
That does full format of the system’s drive and doesn’t install any wireless package or driver, or whatever.

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Everything is currently working. But will keep it in mind.