[HamWAN PSDR] Client configuration instructions

Sat Aug 31 20:41:38 PDT 2013

One more suggestion I picked up from watching today's installation work.
 You might want to point out in the instructions that HamWAN uses
horizontal polarization.  If Nigel hadn't brought it up today, I wouldn't
have had a clue when I assembled the BBQ tonight.

73,
Kenny

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Kenny Richards <richark at gmail.com> wrote:

> That fixed it. For reference, I took mine straight out of the box
> yesterday and followed your directions. So other newbies will probably hit
> the same problem.
>
> Now on to the antenna assembly.  Might run up to DEM this afternoon after
> the window guy gets done.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:
>
> If dhcp-client is already set on wlan1-gateway, then just make sure the
> options are set properly by replacing the "add" with a "set":
>
> /ip dhcp-client set 0 add-default-route=yes dhcp-options=hostname,clientid
> disabled=no
>
> You should be good to go if everything else worked out OK.
>
> --Bart
>
> On 8/31/2013 12:24 AM, Kenny Richards wrote:
>
>  So I ran into another problem, when I got past the scan-list issue.
>
>  At step 12, where I'm telling the radio interface to pull DHCP from
> HamWAN, it is telling me the interface already exists. When I look at the
> interfaces in WinBox, they are not named quite the same. (ether1-local and
> wlan1-gateway)  But when I tried using interface=wlan1-gateway, it still
> didn't work.
>
>  The next step (13) seems to work fine.....
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  Thanks
>  Kenny
>
>   [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>> /ip dhcp-client
>  [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>> add add-default-route=yes
> dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no in
>  terface=wlan1
>  failure: dhcp-client on that interface already exists
>  [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:
>
>>  Good catches.
>>
>> In terms of "input does not match any value of name" it looks like a bug
>> in the command-line interface.  I can repro it here:
>>
>> [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=HamWAN
>>
>> input does not match any value of name
>>  [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=default
>> [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=Sector2
>>
>> input does not match any value of name
>>  [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=5905
>> [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=HamWAN
>>
>> input does not match any value of name
>>  [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> print
>> Flags: X - disabled, R - running
>>  0  R name="wlan1" mtu=1500 mac-address=D4:CA:6D:7A:B8:23 arp=enabled
>> interface-type=Atheros AR92xx mode=station ssid="HamWAN" frequency=5905
>>       band=5ghz-onlyn channel-width=5mhz *scan-list=5905*wireless-protocol=nv2 wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none
>> wds-ignore-ssid=no
>>       bridge-mode=enabled default-authentication=yes
>> default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-client-tx-limit=0
>> hide-ssid=no
>>       security-profile=default compression=no
>>
>> You can see the scan-list was NOT set properly.  However, if you set it
>> using WinBox it DOES set it properly AND uses it properly to scan through
>> the channels.  I'll try to reach out to Mikrotik support to get their take
>> on this.
>>
>> In terms of your other report of no such thing existing, drop the initial
>> "Interface".  It's just Wireless, and then the rest of the click path is OK.
>>
>> <mime-attachment.png>
>>
>>
>> You can see Signal Strength readings there.
>>
>> --Bart
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/2013 8:55 PM, Jeff Francis™ wrote:
>>
>>   Oh, one other thing.  There's a line that says:
>>
>>    "Point your dish at any cell site and optimize for best signal. Look
>> at the Interface -> Wireless -> wlan1 -> Status signal strength reports
>> while you align."
>>
>>    Not sure what the equivalent is in OS 6.2, but there's no such
>> critter that I can find.  The closest thing I've found is clicking on
>> "Quick Set" where there's a display of signal strength, SNR, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Jeff Francis™ <jeff at gritch.org> wrote:
>>
>>>   I tried configuring mine this evening, and it mostly went well, except
>>> for this line:
>>>
>>>  [admin at N0GQ-KPAE] /interface wireless> set 0 disabled=no
>>> frequency-mode=superchannel scan-list=HamWAN ssid=HamWAN
>>> wireless-protocol=nv2
>>>  input does not match any value of name
>>> [admin at N0GQ-KPAE] /interface wireless>
>>>
>>>    I'm afraid I'm not yet familiar enough with RouterOS to make heads
>>> or tails of that error message.  I tried some obvious (and non-obvious)
>>> things, and managed to get some new and improved error messages, but never
>>> managed to quite figure out what I'm doing wrong.
>>>
>>>    I haven't tried adding the keys and accounts yet.  Figured there's
>>> no point in worrying about that until I can get the thing linked up to KPAE.
>>>
>>>    FWIW, I've re-opened the hole in my firewall if you want to debug
>>> (per earlier irc chat).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Due to popular demand, I've thrown together a page that should take you
>>>> from unboxing a Metal 5SHPn modem to getting it on the air.  See here for
>>>> instructions:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Client+Node+Configuration&structure=HamWAN
>>>>
>>>> NQ1E, if you could attach key-dsa-NQ1E.txt to that page when/if you see
>>>> this, that would complete the instructions for now.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if the instructions need fixing or improving.
>>>>
>>>> --Bart
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>   --
>>> -=jeff=-
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> -=jeff=-
>>
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