wired NIC to router to gateway ?

[tjclifford]

Good day.

I have a Motorola SBG900 gateway/router/cable modem connected
to our cable; PCs with nics can connect fine.
However, I have a Linux box (x86) with a wired NIC, that I'm trying
to connect to the sbg900 with either a Linksys wrt54gs (router)
or a D-Link dwl-800ap+, plugging the linux box into either the wrt54 or
dwl800 with a cat5 cable, and trying to connect to the sbg900
via the wireless on the wrt or dwl.
I plug the wired nic into the wrt54 or the dwl800 and attempt to configure
them for the network. I set up the sbg900, wrt54 and dwl800 to use
the same SSID, and set up the ethernet side of the wrt54 / dwl800 to use
the same ip net as the sbg900 (192.168.0.x/24).
I did try setting up a static route for the wrt54, thinking that may be
the issue, but no results. I still cannot connect with the linux box.
It seems like the IP addresses on the linux box side of the wrt54 should
not make a difference - shouldn't the router take care of routing between
dissimilar networks ?

I've not tried this before, but it seems it should work.
Has anyone run into anything similar ?

Thanks........

[JackMDS]

I am totally clear on what you are trying to do.
If you are expecting the WRT54GS to talk wirelessly to the SBG900 it is not going to happen the WRT54GS can not function as WDS (or Client, or Repeater).
The 800AP+ might work provided it is configured as a client.
If you are trying to connect the devices to the SBG900 trough wire you have to prepare them first.
You can see the principle here, http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

:D

[tjclifford]

Jack:

Thanks for the note.

I gave up on the wrt54gs trying to connect to the sbg900.
I have been trying to get the 800ap+ to connect to either the
wrt54gs or the sbg900, which are connected to each other now.

No luck yet, but I have a couple other things to try. If all else
fails, I'll just go get a wireless NIC to put in the linux box....

Tom