wired to wireless

[zigzag03]

i just replaced my old 10/100 zyxel wireless with a linksys gigabit, no wireless. i seem to have lost the hard connection to a computer on a different floor, wire failed or something. so i want to now press the old wireless into service. if i plug it into a lan port on the new unit and into the wan port on the wireless, it shows up on the main router's list of devices with the other computers, last one on the list, 192.168.1.103

so the problem is, how to access the config screens for the second router. i need to get in and turn the wireless on. i tried the obvious, just typing in the address, but it doesnt find it. so i was wondering if anyone knew how to do it. i suppose i could just put it back in as the main router and access it and turn it on, but i was hoping to avoid backtracking.

thanks, zz03

 

[Madwand1]

You don't need to replace the main router -- just connect a workstation directly to the old router during configuration; the old router doesn't have to be connected to anything else at that point.

Jack has a guide on this here: http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

 

[zigzag03]

wow i picked thru this ezlan site and didnt come across this reference, and i thank you for pointing me to it. this should solve my problem. muchas gracias