Networks are no longer being detected in Winbox

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello,

I have a RouterBOARD RB532A which I would like to configure as a wireless client. The only thing I need this device to do is pick up a wireless signal from my Netgear CG3000d wireless router and send it to my desktop computer via an Ethernet cable. I have no experience with networking, and have been attempting to figure out how this works for about two days now.

After some trial and error and reading a bunch of documentation that was way over my head, I found the guide located here: http://www.wi-pipe.com/MicroTik/Routing%20Client%20Configuration.pdf

I had been doing a bunch of experimenting based on the aforementioned documentation and a bunch of youtube videos (mostly in languages I don’t speak), so I decided that I should reset the router settings before I proceeded with the guide. I opened a terminal in Winbox and entered “system reset.” Despite the danger warning, I continued.

Then, when I got to the part in the above guide about adding the wireless interface and then “clicking on scan and starting to discover the networks in range,” (in Winbox), I found that only one network is being picked up (not mine), whereas before I had done the system reset, there had been about 12 (including mine). My network is currently broadcasting its SSID very nicely, and my other machines can see it.

Can anyone tell me what happened? Have I broken something? I would really appreciate some help getting this set up. Thank you in advance.

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Have a close look at the settings on the WLAN interface - mode and frequencies. The rest has probably changed something there.

In terms of your original goals, you probably want to use a bridge to connect the configured WLAN interface to an Ethernet interface.

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Thanks, and sorry for the delay in response. I have been sick and haven’t been able to do anything with this for a while. However, the WLAN interface settings were fine. I set all of them myself both before and after the reset, and they were identical. The mode is set to station, and the frequency is the 2.4 GH band (although I should note that before the rest, it would pick up all the networks regardless of what this was set to).

But anyway, a strange thing happened. After not turning the device on for a week, and everything is miraculously restored. Looks like I’m good to go now.

However, I do not know anything about setting up a bridge. More detail would be appreciated.