On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 07:18, Barry Yu wrote: > In the office there is already an existing LAN with 6 desktop machine > 1 dns server / dhcp server / gateway, ip address range 10.1.10.110 ~ > 10.1.10.240, connection of entire LAN is by cable with a switch box, > every machine is working fine. Now I want to add a Linksys router > WRT54G in the office to enable 2 more laptops ( or more than 2) > equipped with built-in wireless network card for the network, how > ever, these laptops can only go to the Internet and communicate with > other wireless laptop in the same wireless group (Same ssid), but > can't communicate with those wired desktops, the way I connect the > wireless router is : With a cat 5 cable one end connects from the > Internet port of router and the other end goes to one of the port in > the switch box ( Where all desktops are connected). I would imagin > that unless all of the desktop each adds a wireless network card to > enable them to join the wireless network group, otherwise 2 different > network segments can't communicate at all - Can anyone give some > ideas how to make the wireless group to join the wired group? I recently extended my lan by adding a router where another cable was impossible. I also had problems, and I think that what I did was the same as you have done. This is what worked for me. On the new router, ignore the external/internet port of the router. Take a cable from your existing wall box to one internal port on the router. For me that meant that I had disconnected one cabled box that didn't have wireless, so that we then connected through another internal port on the router. This workstation is the cabled one, but I also use a wireless-lilnked laptop without any problems. The gateway address is still the same gateway. The router has its own IP, but it is really only acting as a hub and wireless A/P. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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