[Jeff75]

Shouldn't I be able to form a wireless network connection between my desktop and my Powerbook? Here's the setup:

Aluminum PB with Airport Extreme.
PowerMac dual 1.0 Ghz, mirror drive door (wind tunnel) - NO AIRPORT CARD of any kind
broadband cable modem
wired D-Link router
wireLESS Netgear router

The modem is connected to the D-Link (wired) router and the Netgear router (wireless) is connected via ethernet cable to one port on the D-Link.

I can access the internet with my PowerBook wirelessly. My Tivo also accesses the internet wirelessly via the Netgear router.

The PowerBook doesn't find the PowerMac unless it's connected to the D-Link router by an ethernet cable. And the PowerMac doesn't find the PowerBook, either, of course, unless it's through an ethernet cable.

Networking is no problem through ethernet cable. I just can't connect wirelessly. Since the wireless router is connected to the wired router which is connected to the PowerMac, shouldn't I be able to communicate wirelessly to my PowerBook from my desktop Mac? Thanks!

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by Jeff75:
Shouldn't I be able to form a wireless network connection between my desktop and my Powerbook?

No, because as you state later in your post, your desktop has no wireless card. Thus, it must use wires

Now, if you asked if your desktop and laptop should be able to see each other when your laptop is using wireless, the answer is yes
You need to turn off the routing functions of the wireless router. You only want it acting as a wireless bridge. If the wireless router has a WAN port and LAN ports, turn off the DHCP server and such on it, and plug one of it's LAN ports into one of the LAN ports on your wired router.

--Scott

[Jeff75]

Thanks. By wireless connection to my PowerMac, of course, I mean communicating with the PowerMac wirelessly through the wireless router, then to the wired router, then to the PowerMac. You interpreted me correctly.

You seem to have the solution that I asked for. The only fly in the ointment is whether or not changing the router to act as a bridge would remove access to the internet that my wireless Tivo adaptor needs to update programming!

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by Jeff75:
You seem to have the solution that I asked for. The only fly in the ointment is whether or not changing the router to act as a bridge would remove access to the internet that my wireless Tivo adaptor needs to update programming!

It will have no detrimental effects on the functionality of your network.

[Jeff75]

This is good news. Thanks a lot, I will try this when I get a few spare minutes.

[tooki]

Using double-routers shouldn't even be necessary. Can't the wireless router do everything the wired one does?

If not, I agree that you need to set the wireless router to simple bridge mode so that you aren't double-NATting the connection.

tooki

[Jeff75]

Yes, I thought about that. The wired router has more ports, though. I'll probably swap the order of them when I have a minute. Thanks for the good advice!