Toot

Written by rayslava on 2025-01-04 at 07:01

Today I've been fighting with my #mikrotik hap ax³ in order to enable the 2.4 GHz WiFi.

Spent a couple of hours to identify why doesn't my legacy device see the SSID, I changed encryption and all the possible network settings, I read the documentation on frequencies and compared the channel tables trying to understand if my US device should work in Japan at all. And nothing.

I ended up with the finding that even the "Scan" button on the 2 GHz interface can't find any networks. No issues were reported to logs so I've updated packages, firmware, rechecked all the settings. Still nothing.

At last I stumbled upon the post https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?p=1102060#p1102060

And… It helped! All I had to do is to power-cycle the device! And yet no log messages, no errors, no nothing, but it just started working.

Hey, @mikrotik! I suggest adding something like "turn it off and on again. No, seriously!" into the troubleshooting section in your Confluence, this might have saved many hours of debug

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