Network disk drive not appearing

I am running a wirless network from a linksys router. I have 3 macs running on this network. I purchased an ethernet disk interface for an old hard drive. I connected the drive to one of ports on the router. How do I connect to this drive? Nothing shows up in my network tab. There is a WEP security setting on the network, but even when I turned it off, I did not see the drive. Any suggestions? From the manufacturers instructions, I was led to believe that the drive was pretty much plug-n-play.

I found what is likely another issue, your new drive has it's own DHCP server which is on by default, your Netgear is likely acting as a DHCP server as well. They are probably conflicting. To resolve this the easy way, disconnect your machine from the network (Turn off you airport if you have it and unplug you ethernet cable). Plug in you machine directly to the ethernet port on the drive, you should the be able to go to http://169.254.0.1 (that's the default IP address) and turn off the DHCP server on the drive. Configure it how you want (assign a static IP on your local network, change usernames and passwords, etc). Then plug it back into your network and plug you machine back into your network. Should now be able to access the drive at the Ip address you just assigned.

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