How to setup WRT54G to iBook Airport, but has no ethernet cable port

I am trying to help a friend who broke her ethernet port plug. She has an iBook 600 running OS X Panther 10.3.9.
She bought an Airport card and installed it.
Bought the Linksys WRT54G wireless dsl router, but cannot get it going with her dsl because linksys setup CD only wants to install windows "exe" files.
Can she directly access the router just from Safari web browser by using the 192.168.1.1 / user blank / pw admin, and then go through setting up a WPA connection and wpa security manually?
Or does she have to have an ethernet connection first?
(if she must have ethernet cable connection, then she is, up creek with no boat and no paddle)
Thank you.
Best.

Correct... in more specific terms... click on the airport icon.. search for the default SSID( or wireless network name) and connect to it... once you are connected and have verified that you have a valid IP... then your all set to access the 192.168.1.1 page and configure the DSL and Internet.
For the wireless settings and WPA though, as per the last post... almost every single data you change there will kick you off the wireless network and you have to reconnect again...
For example, since you were connected to linksys (unsecured)... the moment you change this SSID to a personalized one... say myfriend101... you'd be off the router UI after you save the settings... so you have to reconnect manually again to myfriend101 (unsecured) again... once you are connected to this... and then decide to put say WPA security.. you'd get kicked off again the moment you save... (you get the pattern)...
Message Edited by sharkbyte on 05-12-200701:36 PM

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