belkin wireless, just want wireless ethernet

i just bought a belkin wireless G router. my problem is that i have my
home network set up. got a adsl modem, which goes into my linux
server, and the server spreads it to my other 3 computers.
2 of them are laptops, so this is where the wireless would come into
action.

so all i want is, that the wireless does the same job as the ethernet
router does now. but i run the set up cd, asking me about internet
connection, providers, user names and password for my braodband, and
no documentation about simple wireless data transfer with out taking
over my whole network. i don't want the new wireless router to give
out ip addresses over dhcp or anything in this matter.

is it possible that i got the wrong hardware, or an anyone help me to
just set it up, so it just functions like a ethernet router, but
wireless.

cheers, dimitri

On 10 Feb 2007 02:56:22 -0800, "dimitri" <ds@octavum.com> wrote in
<1171104982.420963.129270@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>:

>i just bought a belkin wireless G router. my problem is that i have my
>home network set up. got a adsl modem, which goes into my linux
>server, and the server spreads it to my other 3 computers.
>2 of them are laptops, so this is where the wireless would come into
>action.
>
>so all i want is, that the wireless does the same job as the ethernet
>router does now. but i run the set up cd, asking me about internet
>connection, providers, user names and password for my braodband, and
>no documentation about simple wireless data transfer with out taking
>over my whole network. i don't want the new wireless router to give
>out ip addresses over dhcp or anything in this matter.
>
>is it possible that i got the wrong hardware, or an anyone help me to
>just set it up, so it just functions like a ethernet router, but
>wireless.

Set up your wireless router as an >> access point << (connected to your
wired network) as described in the How To wiki below.

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