Networking help requested

[Buddabing]

I am having difficulty getting the wireless part of my home network running.

My home has a wired LAN with the router (a Linksys BEFSR11) attaching to the cable outlet and to my hub. The router has a fixed local address of 192.168.11.1.

The various computers in the house have fixed IP addresses of 192.168.11.101 upwards. It was necessary to have fixed IP addresses so that I could open up a port on my son's computer to host Warcraft 3 games.

My wife wants to have an internet connection in her sewing room where there is no connection. So I dug out my old Netgear MR314 wireless router. I figured I would set it up as a DHCP server. The MR314 has four wired connections as well as the wireless, so I tried disconnecting my PC from the wired network and plugging it into the MR314, then I plugged the MR314 into the home LAN.

I cannot ping or otherwise get to my 192.168.11.1 router through the MR314, regardless of what configuration I'm trying on the MR314. I can log onto the MR314 just fine, it's getting from the MR314 to the BEFSR11 that's the problem.

Please advise.

Regards,
Buddabing

[SithMaster]

can you post the running config of your linksys router?  im thinking it could be some sort of factory default giving you the trouble.

actually could you post both since it could be on the netgear too.  hmmm.

though do you need to make the netgear a dhcp server couldnt it just connect to the other router without being dhcp?  or maybe the netgear doesnt have a correct address?

just some ideas probably wrong but you never know unless you do.

[Buddabing]

Hmmmm. It works now, but it didn't work before. Weird. I didn't change anything. Maybe it was a matter of just flushing out the DNS caches or some other mumbo jumbo.

In fact, my computer is attached to the MR314 as I type this.