After trying to reset the router, there is no wireless network

RouterOS General
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Hello,

After trying to reset the L009UiGS-2HaxD-IN router to the factory settings (pressing the reset button then powering it on and release the button once the green LED flashes), my configured wireless networks are gone but the default wireless network does not appear.

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Have you installed the wifi-qcom package?

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Uh… no. I don’t even know what you are talking about. Why should it matter? I’m just trying to factory reset.

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Download extra packages that match your version of RouterOS. Place the wifi-qcom file in the Files folder (using Winbox, for example) and reboot the router

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Look at what packages you have installed in System - Packages

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I don’t understand. It was working when I unboxed it. Why should I need to add packages?
I’m locked out of the router. That’s why I’m trying to reset it.
I only used the web browser. I didn’t try winbox.

Thanks for trying to help though.

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Connect the router with a cable and use Winbox to connect via Mac address

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I wish I had known this before.

I’m willing to try later after I have slept but can someone explain why the factory reset is not working?

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Okay I’m finally connected to the router but there is still no wifi network. There is a new red error message that says “no connection to CAPsMAN”.
I need to learn how to list and install packages.

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I found out the router kept my exported config file so restoring should be easy. It even saved a pre-reset backup file but I can’t edit that one

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I would do something like this:

Connect RJ45 to ether1 and console cable to well CONSOLE and then through the console cable:


/ip address add address=192.168.1.99/24 comment=MGMT interface=ether1 network=192.168.1.0
/ip route add disabled=no distance=1 dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 gateway=192.168.1.254@main routing-table=main suppress-hw-offload=no
/ip service set www disabled=no vrf=main
/ip service set ssh disabled=no vrf=main

The above will make sure that both http and ssh are enabled and that your Mikrotik will listen at 192.168.1.99/24 (using default gw: 192.168.1.254) on ether1 (which is the MGMT interface if your box got one dedicated or the first regular RJ45 is there is no dedicated interface labeled MGMT (if it exists its often next to the CONSOLE interface)).

Note to disable /ip/service/www or change it to /ip/service/www-ssl when you are done but for that you need to create a certificate and connect that to the www-ssl service before you can login using https instead of http.

This way you can through scp on the host when connected to ether1 on the switch use scp to copy files to/from the Mikrotik device.

I wrote some additional info in this thread in case you want to extract the config and modify it on the host and then reimport it to your Mikrotik device:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/how-to-properly-move-config-from-one-mikrotik-device-to-another-of-the-same-model-and-firmware-version/177192/1

In order to make regular RouterOS smaller Mikrotik have started to put for example WIFI-support in its own package - this way devices who dont have WIFI wont waste storage and RAM for something they cannot use anyway.

Some more info about available packages (which you probably need in order to successfully configure and use WIFI after a system reset):

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Packages

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Thanks.

I only have 8 RJ45 ports, 1 USB port and 1 SFP port.

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Then connect to the first RJ45 interface, that should be refered to as ether1 internally.

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I’m connected via ether2. Why not? Internet access?
Should I use winbox if I have no console?

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Nevermind. I will get it done.

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I reset the router again and now the default wireless network is showing and the firewall rules are back. Not sure what went wrong the last time but I suspect I plugged the cables incorrectly.