I am wondering how to set up a linksys wireless router to share a dial-up connection. I have a PC with a modem and a PCI Ethernet card (actually two of them) and a PC in an other room, which has a wireless card. I want to share the dial-up internet connection (yes, dial-up is very slow, but I have a 3 year conteact that I am a year and a half into with a dial-up provider) from the computer wired with the dial-up modem with the machine with the wireless card. Can anyone help?

You should be able to do it with Window's Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). You can find ICS info through the Help and Support Center. For the physical network just connect the first PC via ethernet cable to a LAN port on the router and access the router via its IP address to configure the wireless side. There should be instructions with the router on how to do this. Once you can get the 2 PCs to ping each other, use the Set up a Home or Small Office network wizard to set up the ICS. If you run into any trouble, come back with description of what you've done, error messages, etc. Happy dial-up sharing.

Thanks for the advice. I tried what TerryNet suggusted, and the PCs couldn't ping each other. I'm not sure why the wireless card can't "see" the router. I thought it may be a distance issue (even though I have a "G" router, so that shouldn't problem) and I put a wireless card in the machine that also has the modem. That computer couldn't find a wireless network either. I made sure my router was on properly and that all wires were in their correct positions, but I still couldn't get the machines to ping each other. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to troubleshoot?

Dola, did you "connect the first PC via ethernet cable to a LAN port on the router and access the router via its IP address to configure the wireless side"? (I'm assuming that by "wireless card can't "see" the router" you mean that the wireless signal is not detected.) Configure meaning to assign a SSID, channel, enable DHCP server, etc. Don't do MAC filtering or suppress broadcast of SSID. And don't enable encryption until after the network is working for you. Does your router have a LED that indicates the WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) is working? Then you should be able to scan with one of the PCs and detect (and connect to) your wireless signal.

Yes, I did connect to the router via a Ethernet cord and configured the router. Oddly, the router allowed me to connect to it yesterday, but today it won't let me see the configuration page. When I type in "192.168.1.1" (the router's IP), my browser (IE) gives me the "Page cannot be displayed" page. However, I did configure it to DHCP when I was able to access the router's settings yesterday. There is a light for WLAN, and it is on, showing that WLAN is working properly.

One possibility (OK, a guess) for the trouble accessing the router: when you are connected via ethernet to the router and to the internet via dial-up, your browser doesn't know which connection to use for a given request. For 68.142.226.45 you'd want the dial-up path but for 192.168... you'd want the ethernet. You can test this guess, but if it's true I don't know how to get around it. How about the wireless access? With the utility that came with your wireless adaptor you should be able to scan for signals, and see at least yours. If Netgear, the SCAN button is on the Networks tab. Window's WZC (Wireless Zero Configuration) must have something similar, but I don't use it. In any case, in the notification area there should be some kind of icon showing some information about signals or lack thereof.