How do you "slave" a MikroTik to an access point?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi.

I’m curious about this: I have a wireless access point in my house, as well as the MikroTik device (RouterBOARD 411). I want the MikroTik to be able to function as an external wireless connection for a computer, so instead of being an access point itself it needs to be “slaved” to the access point (the other access point that I mentioned is the “manager” for this “managed” setup) like how an internal wireless card connecting to the network would be. Is this possible? If so, how do you do it? Thanks.

EDIT: I found that what I have to do is to set it to “station” mode. Yet now it wants to “search for the network” endlessly. I’ve tried frequency settings, multi-checked the SSID, passwords, cipher choices, tried resetting the configuration and doing it from a clean config, nothing. What’s wrong?

I can see the “Band” and “Frequency” indicators on the interface’s Webfig page cycling, like it’s trying over and over to connect but failing.

Now it won't route!
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Did you set SSID and security? when you make a Freq. Scan, do you see the network you want to connect to?

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Set up the security profile correctly, then perform a scan and connect.

I would suggest using station-pseudobridge mode rather than station.
Station mode is not Layer2 transparent, therefore you would have to additionaly configure NAT, DHCP and routing on the Mikrotik.
Station-pseudobridge is (sort of) transparent for L2 and the host behind the Mikrotik can use the DHCP server from your AP.

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I’ve tried setting up the profile multiple times now using the information that was on my wireless router, double, triple, quad, quint-checking and nothing. It’s already in station-pseudobridge mode, too.

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Post the output of /interf wirel sec exp com (remember to remove the password :wink:)
Have you selected the configured profile on the wireless tab?

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The output of the command you gave is:

set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=\
    wpa-psk,wpa2-psk,wpa-eap,wpa2-eap group-ciphers=tkip,aes-ccm mode=\
    dynamic-keys supplicant-identity=NoctiNet unicast-ciphers=tkip,aes-ccm \
    wpa-pre-shared-key="*CENSORED*" wpa2-pre-shared-key="*CENSORED*"

(obviously sans passwords)

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And yes, I have the profile selected. It’s “default”. That’s the profile I put those settings in. I had tried making a separate profile once – no luck.

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Use only authentication-types=wpa-psk,wpa2-psk and check what happens then.

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Just tried that. Still no luck.

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NEWS:

I just managed to get it to go. But the problem was not (entirely?) on the MikroTik device, but on my wireless access point! I had it in a “Mixed 802.11n, 802.11g and 802.11b” mode, and changing it to “Mixed 802.11g and 802.11b” (802.11g/b ONLY, no n) made it work. Apparently you cannot even include 802.11n, even if you still allow for b/g like what the MikroTik uses.

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That’s weird. What software verison of RouterOS do you use on your 411?

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5.26, I believe.

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How to configure MikroTik router OS?

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By winbox. For example.