Wireless print routing

I have a network running a 2000 Advanced server with a 10.0.0.1 IP. The server provides print sharing for the network. I recently added a Linksys WRT54G Wireless router after the server to connect my new laptop. How do I get the laptop to connect to the printer? The laptop does connect to the internet. The router has a static IP to the server, and runs DHCP for the wireless. Can I get the router to simply act like a wireless switch?

Yes you can make it act like a switch. Change the Router LAN IP to say for example 10.0.0.11. Then disable it's DHCP capabilities. Then hardwire your server to into a LAN port on the router, not the Internet/WAN port as what is deemed normal. That should just make your router a switch acquiring the address from your server.

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http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1645/printerq.jpg
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I have already added the printer to my network using Windows Add Printer prior to assigning the printer a static IP. But I followed your instructions in making the IP static so if I reset the router I don't have to go through the process again.
When I ran CC and told it to add a printer, it did not identify any printer for me, it went from the screen where you say to add a printer to one where it asked me to name the printer. Honestly, I wasn't even sure if it was referring to the Canon because I'd already added it using Windows, albeit without a static IP, just by knowing what IP it had been assigned. After I gave it the name, it went back to the "home" screen with computers & devices, parental controls, etc. No errors, but no real way to see or change what I had done.
That's why I was asking if there's a way to look at the router and view devices that have a static IP. I can view the DHCP table but it's not there of course. I don't really see anywhere using the router software (either by web connection or CC) where the Canon printer is listed. I see it in Windows Printers, but I saw it there before I reran CC and it asked me to name it.
I appreciate your help and I'm glad to be up and running with it. Especially with having a static IP. I'm just trying to better understand what happened and how to view my devices connected to the router.
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I am having difficulty with a specific configuration trying to print wirelessly.
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