Trouble with wired and wireless home network

I recently installed a WTR54GS with my desktop wired to it and my laptop wireless. My laptop can get to the internet (router is attached to a cable modem) but it can not see shared files on the desktop or the printer that is attached to the desktop. However, the desktop can see the shared file folder on the laptop. I can not seem to correct this. Latest error message I got was Microsoft 871122, something about wireless zero configuration. I'm about ready to go back to my old USR router that worked fine, except that it lost its IP address periodically. Any advice?

It could be a bunch of things. I am guessing you added the wireless laptop after the desk top. The best place to start is on your desktop. Right click on your shared folder. From the dropdown menu select sharing and security. From there it gives you several options as well as more info...including your firewall settings. Do the same thing on your desktop using Control Panal and the printers and fax icon right click on your printer. You might also check to see if your LAN or Worgroup match between the two puters. You can make it work no matter, but might find it easier if they are the same. Do this by right clicking on My Computer, choose properties on the dropdown choose the computer name tab. It will give you an option to change the settings...That is a basic start...the wireless 0 connection error your are getting implies that you let microsoft setup on your wireless adapter settings on your laptop. This can be disabled. I avoid using the micorsoft stuff for setup for your wireless adapter. Just my prefrence. That is with one exception and unless you are Windows Registry Hexpert, I won.t get into that.
Anyway a possiable start.

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I am have have trouble with both wired and wireless. It will only let me do one or the other. Is there a way i can do both?
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Sorry, both cannot be enabled by design. That said, devices on a network do not care how others are connected. You can print from a wireless connection to a wired (Ethernet) printer and v/v.
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Hello,
I have never had any issue at all with my macbook (2008) until this week, I use it both for work and personal use.
Most of time, I'm used to be on customer site, so I use wired and wireless connections depending of the situation....
I have never had any issue at all with wifi neither ethernet connections during three years, until this week... and I can say this is the most strange thing I have ever seen....
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But this week I'm currently out of home, and the hotel where I'm staying I'm having very poor network rate....
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During this afternoon, I could go into hotel's lab and could connect directly to the router using cable, same speed no more than 10kb....
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I've seen something like this on my T400 when it was running Vista. Now that I use Win 7 it's been OK. I rather doubt that your issue is the same but I'm tossing it out here just on the off chance.
Im my case, I had to downgrade my Intel 5300 card to a 5100 (as suggested by a Lenovo 2nd-tier tech) to get things working.
My symptoms were a little different. Wifi was fine until I went back to a wired network. After that, trying to use the same wifi AP as before would end up associated, but no internet access. DHCP wasn't working. The GUI "find" app didn't work as expected either. Some APs showed up, and some didn't.
If I configured for automatic connection to my home AP it would try and fail. Just rebooting at that point would again attempt an automatic connection that would succeed.
What I have noticed now that I run Win 7 is that Access Connections is completely useless. Often the "finder" doesn't show an AP 3 feet away. I didn't notice that this happened after a switch from wired, but maybe.
Are you using Access Connections? If so, you might try uninstalling it.
Sorry I can't be of real help,
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Try Ethernet over Power adapters.. these are very popular for your kind of environment.. being able to make non-wireless link to another area where you can setup a wireless access point.
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The comparison chart here.
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Networking Wired and Wireless Computers

I must write before I need Rogaine for the bald patches where I've pulled out my hair. I've read everything I can find about setting up wired/wireless home networks, and there is obviously something I don't grasp.
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I have a WRT54G Linksys router. I want to be able to run two notebooks (running XP, with the necessary wireless adaptors) wirelessly. Is this even possible with the main computer being a wired computer?
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I'm unsure of the firmware for version 7 but most of my adivce should still hold.
after doing some searching on WPA and WEP and WPA2, WPA is better, with WPA2 being better than that
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