If you connect the router (WRT54GC) to your broadband modem does it then allow wireless action? Your router has an Internet address. It is 192.168.1.1, in all probability. Check your manual to be sure. Access to the control panel is through this address. You must log in to the router then set up the Wireless, the SSID (the name you give your network) and any security you set up. I prefer the WEP-PSK[TKIP] as it's easiest. Other things with the router, settings and such, pretty much are set automatically, so once security is set you should be good to go. Good luck !!!
If you connect the linksys where your "dsl router" is, does it behave any differently? If you put the dsl router where the linksys was, how does it behave?
I'm thinking, to get to Wireless access, you need to have the Linksys connected directly to your broadband modem, not downline from it via the DSL modem. Just a thought, maybe the Linksys doesn't detect the Internet correctly from the DSL router, and therefore cannot distribute it wirelessly. Why can't you connect the Linksys directly to your DSL line?
I think I see my confusion: your DSL modem has the router built right in to it ... I guess that causes a problem. Definitely my bad. I have no idea why your Linksys will not work wirelessly ... unless there is something in the manual referring to this situation. Perhaps it is not made to work with DSL?
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that's the point of my question, it won't let me do this. when i type in the address it says "server is taking to long too respond." also, when i look up the IP address in both windows and mac, it is blank for the linksys router. manually resetting it does nothing. I can not get into the router via any ip, it will not respond. I even tried pinging it. the dsl router works fine, the linksys does not. it will relay the internet from the dsl, but will do nothing else. no wireless. no control panel. no IP. no ping response. no nothing.
if i connect a computer directly to the dsl modem via ethernet, it works fine. if i connect the linksys WRT54GC to the DSL modem via ethernet, and then connect the computer to the linksys via ethernet, i get internet, but not wireless (the wireless LED on the linksys is not lit up). connected this way, the network panel in both mac and pc show the ip address of the router as the IP of the DSL modem, and any attempts to connect to the router connect to the control panel for the DSL modem. If I unplug the DSL modem (it's a motorola, my isp is ATT), and connect a computer to the linksys, the network panel shows a blank for the IP address. I went through the linksys troubleshooting stuff, and it says to manually reset the ip address, this does nothing. i've tried connecting to 192.186.1.1, 192.168.0.1, i get nothing. My computer says
ip: 192.168.1.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
router: 192.168.1.254
whether getting internet though the linksys via ethernet, or directly from the motorola DSL modem. on both mac and PC.
the linksys connected to the PC with no dsl modem, when running ispconfig/all command, under ethernet, says
ipv4 address 169.254.192 preferred
subnet 255.255.0.0
default gateway (blank/nothing here)
attempting ipconfig/renew gets an error , unable to connect, server timed out
the DSL gets internet from a phoneline in the wall. there is an ethernet cable going from the dsl to the linksys. that's it. that's all there is. and it doesnt explain why i can't get a response from the linksys on 192.168.1.1 when connected directly to it from a computer with nothing else hooked up. the linksys only has internet in via ethernet cable, and 4 ethernet hookups. that's it.
wall. phone jack. splitter (still phone jack). dsl modem. linksys. computer. that's it. internet directly from dsl to computer works via ethernet cable. internet from DSL via linksys with ethernet works. no wireless. that's all there is. linksys does not respond to browser connections. there is no control interface like there should be.
the linksys gets, and sends, internet via ethernet from the dsl and to the computer. but it won't do the wireless. I repeat that the real problem here is that it won't respond to calls to it from the computer on its IP address. including test pings in network utility on the mac, AND HERE"S THE IMPORTANT PART::: THE ROUTER DOES NOT SHOW UP IN NETWORK CONNECTION WINDOWS, EITHER ON MAD OR WINDOWS. IT HAS NO IP, IT RESPONDS TO NOTHING. yet it relays internet via ethernet cables.
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