Hi, I’m a beginner user with Routerboard 411AH, I purchased an Atherous AR5413 for the wireless card and connected a 9db antenna. My LAN port is giving me Rec/Sen data packets but no matter what I do I can’t get my Wireless network to broadcast..
Anything I’m missing? I have ‘enabled’ the device.
Thanks in advance.
Post your config.
I hope this is something like your looking for?
Sort of. Text exports work better - check out the wiki manual on “configuration management”.
That said your screenshots do show what is wrong. First you should set a country so you are sure to comply with your regulatory domain. Not doing so doesn’t make the cops come on over, but it would potentially have you be a bit of a dick inadvertently interfering with all kinds of stuff.
The main issue is that you are in station mode - your radio is trying to associate with other APs, just like a laptop it is being a client. You want to change that to ap-station so it’s acting as an AP.
mode (station | station-wds | ap-bridge | bridge | alignment-only | nstreme-dual-slave | wds-slave | station-pseudobridge | station-pseudobridge-clone | station-bridge; Default: station)
station - Basic station mode. Find and connect to acceptable AP.
station-wds - Same as station, but create WDS link with AP, using proprietary extension. AP configuration has to allow WDS links with this device. Note that this mode does not use entries in wds.
station-pseudobridge - Same as station, but additionally perform MAC address translation of all traffic. Allows interface to be bridged.
station-pseudobridge-clone - Same as station-pseudobridge, but use station-bridge-clone-mac address to connect to AP.
AP modes:ap-bridge - Basic access point mode.
bridge - Same as ap-bridge, but limited to one associated client.
wds-slave - Same as ap-bridge, but scan for AP with the same ssid and establishes WDS link. If this link is lost or cannot be established, then continue scanning. If dfs-mode is radar-detect, then APs with enabled hide-ssid will not be found during scanning.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Wireless
Sorry to link to a manual - but you bought a proper, powerful router. The upside is you can do lots of things with it, the downside is that it’s complicated and will require a fair bit of reading.
If you go through the wiki linked in the forum header for manuals you’ll also find lots of user contributed topics there, including how to set up a basic access point.
Thanks for the help Fewi..
Now, I got everything to broadcast. Now, I’m not getting a default gateway from the router.
I’ve been reading over the wiki articles but I’m not getting very far. Now, when I setup the DHCP to pass out IP address, I want to set the interface to the WLAN correct? Since users will be on the WLAN.
If anyone has some useful threads to point me to that would be great.
Do you have any plan for authenticating or accounting your wireless users?
Try Hotspot. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Hotspot_server_setup
and If it’s not a free Wifi network, Set some wireless Security http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Wireless#Security_Profiles
Just a simple WPA2 key is set to keep people from coming into the parking lot and getting free wifi.
This is just simply for the guests of the business to have internet access as the main router will not transmit that far across the building.
I have a ethernet cable ran to this the routerboard in a enclosure with a 9db antenna.
I just did that with success. I’m getting a connection unsuccessful on my computer when trying to connect.
Post the output of “/ip address print detail”, “/ip route print detail”, “/interface print detail”, “/ip pool print detail”, “/ip dhcp-server export”, “/ip dhcp-server print detail”, and “/ip firewall export”. Wrap output in
tags to keep it readable.
0 address=192.168.0.100/32 network=192.168.0.1 interface=wlan1
actual-interface=wlan1
0 ADC dst-address=192.168.0.1/32 pref-src=192.168.0.100 gateway=wlan1
gateway-status=wlan1 reachable distance=0 scope=10
0 R name="ether1" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1526
1 R name="wlan1" type="wlan" mtu=1500 l2mtu=2290
Ip pool print detail - NONE SHOWS
# jan/02/1970 00:10:28 by RouterOS 5.4
# software id = NV9T-RCL0
#
/ip firewall connection tracking
set enabled=yes generic-timeout=10m icmp-timeout=10s tcp-close-timeout=10s \
tcp-close-wait-timeout=10s tcp-established-timeout=1d tcp-fin-wait-timeout=\
10s tcp-last-ack-timeout=10s tcp-syn-received-timeout=5s \
tcp-syn-sent-timeout=5s tcp-syncookie=no tcp-time-wait-timeout=10s \
udp-stream-timeout=3m udp-timeout=10s
/ip firewall service-port
set ftp disabled=no ports=21
set tftp disabled=no ports=69
set irc disabled=no ports=6667
set h323 disabled=no
set sip disabled=no ports=5060,5061
set pptp disabled=n
# jan/02/1970 00:09:02 by RouterOS 5.4
# software id = NV9T-RCL0
#
[admin@MikroTik] > ip dhcp-server print detail
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid
IP info from my current DSL router that I’m connecting this Routerboard to has the follow info:
From a destop on the DSL Router:
IP: 192.168.0.2
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS Server: 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server: 192.168.0.1
Should I run the DHCP setup on ether1 or my wlan1?
That’s very confusing. There’s no DHCP server set up. Also, your IP addressing on the WLAN interface is wrong - /32s are host addresses, that won’t work.
You should start by reading basic tutorials such as this: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/How_to_configure_a_home_router
Then later expand to wireless once wired connectivity is working, it’s easy to later bridge WiFi into the at that point existing wired network or add it as a separate network. Right now you’re missing very fundamental and crucial settings.
I can’t connect to it through lan as it only has one port.
I’m getting no where with this thing.
I just reset the configuration to start all over again.
I will pay someone to remote in and set this up.
I’m ready here 
It’s 12:44AM Central Time America here. Can we setup a time for this Sunday before 3PM Central time?
Also, how much are we looking for this to get done? Thanks for your reply!
you may email me at: huntj06@gmail.com if you’d like.
I would like to give a big thank you to sadeghrafie. He helped me today and had me going in about an hour.. I can’t thank you enough..
Thanks again!