Remote wired network from wireless source with Time Capsule?

Hi,
I need to connect wired ethernet devices (e.g. printer) that are remotely located from my router and cable modem. I am hoping to achive this by plugging the printer into the time capsule and have the time capsule join the network, but I cannot connect the TC to the modem with a cable. Is this peven possible or does the TC have to be connected via wired ethernet from the router?
Seems like it should be easy but I have not had success yet. I must be missing something!
TC - 2TB model A1302
Thanks and Happy Holidays!

BTW, my router is a Linksys WRT54GL
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Are you running it on 3rd party, dd-wrt and the like??
They were an excellent router.. but are now well and truly out of date. They always had slow wan to lan throughput but it wasn't a big deal with slow internet speeds of yester-year.. now the G wireless and slow throughput are really shown up as inadequate.
And WDS is terrible in most early implementations.. Unless you do WDS to an identical router running identical firmware.. just don't do it.
What about simply using the TC in place of the WRT.. and get a second hand (if you don't want to spend too much) airport extreme, or a new express as the connection to the wired devices.
Or using EOP adapters (homeplug is another name).. for the printer.
You can certainly use the WRT54G as universal bridge to the TC.. as an alternative.. that would work better with the current hardware.. and the older dd-wrt should be fine.. (some of the newer DD-WRT are hopeless) but you cannot use WPA2.. only WPA to do it. This has to be done on 3rd party firmware.. no way on linksys firmware.. but third party is fine on these boxes.. they were after all the pioneers.

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