2 Wire HomePortal & Linksys router. Help!

[newsmike]

I realize that I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but I wanted you guys to tell me so before i go out and buy a new wireless box.

I have DSL running properly and can connect to it on a wired desktop and my laptop when the Ethernet cable is plugged in. When I switch to WiFi on my laptop, I can no longer see the home network, because the wired connectivity is provided by the 2 Wire portal. I keep trying to figure out a way to configure these two boxes to allow the network to be seen on the laptop in wireless mode also. Here's how I'm connected.

I have AT&T DSL and use the 2 Wire HomePortal 1000HW to get the DSL signal from the wall. Then I take the DSL into the WAN port on the Linksys BEFSR41 router. Then the desktop and the cable for wired connectivity on the laptop are connected to ports 1 and 2 on the Linksys.

Am I screwed, or is there a way to see the home network on Wireless, or do I need to buy a wireless router with built in DSL?

Thanks

[cszeto]

http://forums.practicallynetworked.com/showthread.php?t=9404

If you need more ethernet ports, then a "switch" is the supported method of obtaining more port density. Most manufacturers will not support stacking or nesting multiple NAT routers as they were not designed nor marketed for that.

[newsmike]

I don't need more ethernet ports, i need to see the network when i am connected via wireless.

[cszeto]

The 1000HW is already a NAT router. Hooking up an additional NAT router in the form of the BEFSR41 is an unsupported configuration. It is creating a nested NAT (i.e. firewalling) situation which is what you are experiencing. The correct way of adding more ethernet ports is to utilize an ethernet switch instead of the BEFSR41.