LinkSys router connected to the Gateway AT&T router?

Factual Questions
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I have AT&T DSl Pro. Works fine.

Got 3 machines hard wired and an old HP laptop that would not connect wireless. Finally had to buy a new Wireless card, 3-G so it would connect. It would try with the older card but could not hang on. The AT&T folks said it should be backwards compatible but they were not responsible for the HP problems. Hence the new card.

I have an Think Pad 42 also, it connected when I tried it out but I did not leave it on very long. Later, I was trying to use it and it will only stay connected about 2-7 minutes then crash. Grr

I do not really want to buy another $90 card for it, it has an internal card anyway …

So, I tried to daisy chain the LinkSys router to the Gateway supplied by AT&T, but no joy. I want to use the wireless part of the LinkSys to connect the Laptops with. Will this work or will I need to pony up for the new card?

Both laptops work fine when we travel, both have always been able to get on motel wireless set ups.

Any ideas?

Gateway 2WIRE232 modem / router combination
LinkSys WRT54G V8
Netgear 108 Mbs Wireless PC Card- WG511T

2

If you connect the Linksys router to the Gateway router, and then connect one of the laptops to the Linksys (with ethernet), are you able to get on to the web? If so, then the problem is between your linksys router and your wireless adapters. If you can’t get a connection, you may have to setup your linksys router as a “bridge,” which this product isn’t designed to do (although if you google “LinkSys WRT54G bridge,” it appears you can force it to act as a bridge.)

3

Missed edit window.

It apperas all those articles are for setting up a wireless bridge, which I don’t believe you want to do here. You should just be able to change the linksys’s IP and connect it to the Gateway.

4

Thanks I think… LOL Will the LinkSys be addressable without an external internet connection? the 192.168.xx.x approach?

I do not have a static IP address so what IP # do I set? Does the Gateway have some other IP # that connects like a hard wired computer? Put a computer cable into a different connection slot, find the internal IP # and then set that in the linksys router and then connect it to the Gateway? Or?

Use little words please…

Thanks…

5

In a nutshell the linksys router wants to set itself up as 192.168.1.1, your modem should be 192.168.0.1

Look for a router IP address setting in your linksys and switch it to 192.168.2.1, plug a line from one of the ports on the DSL router to the uplink/wan port on linksys router and connect up. It should just work, if not you may need to specify the default gateway on any machines connecting to the linksys router as 192.168.2.1