Old Wireless Router as a Wired Access Point?

[Sid59]

Current Router = Apple Time Capsule
Old Router = Linksys WRT54GL, firmware = DDWRT mod

I have a win7 desktop that doesn't have a wireless card and it's too far from my main router to be hardwired.

I need help setting up my old Linksys as a hard-wired access point?

Time Capsule > Linksys > Wired to PC > Internets!

In other words, I want to reuse my linksys router as an ethernet/wireless modem.

 

[Aarondeep]

disable DHCP server, give it an internal static address, and plug it into your router.
With DD-WRT you can even remap the wan port to the switch if u want.
voila

 

[Sid59]

disable DHCP server, give it an internal static address, and plug it into your router.
With DD-WRT you can even remap the wan port to the switch if u want.
voila

Main router is on the otherside of the house. I need the old router to act like a USB Wireless Network card except through the PC's ethernet.

Somehow, i think it'll be easier to spend 40 bucks on a USB wireless N driver.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Then you are talking about using the DD-WRT router as a wireless bridge.

Set Wireless mode to "Client", set the SSID to the same as the main router, and encryption type and password to the same as well. Give the DD-WRT router a different LAN subnet than the main router (as "Client mode" wireless will NAT). Leave DHCP enabled.

Assuming that you have everything set up properly, then you will see the "WAN IP" (shown in the upper-right corner of the screen on the DD-WRT menus) pop up with an IP address from your main router. Then your PC that is wired into the DD-WRT router will pick up an IP address from the different LAN subnet.

This should give you internet access.

If you want to share NAS, or LAN printers, or things of that nature, then you are better off investigating how to setup WDS mode, between multiple DD-WRT routers. (I'm using a config like that at my place.)

 

[random betrayal]

Here is a link to a step by step guide on how to do it
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...onvert-a-wireless-router-into-an-access-point