Bought Toshiba lap-top and wanted to go wireless. Got a belkin wireless router hooked it all up and is working fine. now wanted to hook my desk top up too, but not wireless. Is this possible? What i did try was attaching cable from card installed in desk top to router. Not sure if that was right. But doesn't work. What am I missing here? Thank you for your time and help.

I'd ask how your laptop is actually connected to the internet. Your ISP might allow only one computer. Post results of command ipconfig /all on both and someone would be able to tell. If you pay for a static IP then XXX the last few numbers if you wish.

What do you use ? cable or dsl ? actually either of them should be fine and you should be able to connect more than 1 hosts to the Internet. The reaosn it might not work because 1. You might be using a wrong cable, for example, a crossover used instead of a straight-through. 2. Your onboard NIC card might not be configured correctly, causing it not to get an ip address from the DHCP server. 3. Your router's DHCP pool is limited.

Any number of things may be happening here. Firstly, did you use a patch cable or crossover to connect the desktop to a lan port of the router? It needs to be a patch cable. Have you checked Network Connections in the desktop to see if a successful connection is being made to the router? How did the desktop previously connect? Is the desktop set to obtain IP automatically in the TCP/IP properties setting? I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.