File sharing -- wired vs. wireless

Hi all!
I have having odd behavior with a WRT54G router (v5). I have set up Windows XP file/print sharing over NetBEUI (TCP/IP sharing is disabled). It works fine when all devices are plugged into the router. When I unplug my laptop and use the wireless, it can't see the other machines nor be seen by them. All other communication works fine.
AP Isolation is OFF on the router. Is there some other feature that would block NetBEUI between the wired and wireless sides? I had a v3.1 router until about 3 weeks ago and all of the sharing worked fine...
Thanks!
/gary kessler

Hi.
Thanks for the replies....
My experience has been that NetBEUI works fine over a WLAN; in fact, it worked on my v3.1 router. (And I can't think of any reason that it wouldn't work over any kind of broadcast LAN as long as there was no routing...)
I don't use TCP/IP because I don't want sharing enabled over the Internet. I use NetBEUI at home and don't want to worry about sharing accidently getting routed somewhere and I don't want to have to reconfigure my system everytime I leave home and jack into a foreign network, e.g., work (which I do frequently).
Both wired and wireless adapters are set for NetBEUI, sharing is bound to NetBEUI (and unbound from TCP/IP), and firewalls were off on all computers for testing.... although, if the wired sharing worked there's no reason that the wireless shouldn't because the other computers don't know how I am accessing the router!
This is what makes me think that there's something in the router that is blocking the traffic from the wireless side to the wired ports...
I have uninstalled NetBEUI from the laptop, including removing the registry keys, then reinstalled.... still, sharing works fine when I am plugged into the router but fails when I use wireless.....
Thanks again...
/kess

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