Wireless Print Win 98 and WRT54G

Trying to print with a Toshiba Laptop Windows 98 via a WRT54G to an HP deskjet 840c. Printer is wired to an Apple computer. I am able to print from the wired MAC, 2 wireless MACS but not wireless laptop. I am able to get on the internet with ALL of the computers. Any suggestions ?

There are drivers for the network card in the computer. I assume here that the computer is correctly installed and all hardware in the computer has working drivers installed. I don't remember exactly how it was on Win 98. On XP you have the device manager which shows which hardware is installed and operational. The network adapter must be listed there and O.K.
You could try to open a command prompt window on the windows 98 computer and enter "ipconfig /all". This command shows the network adapters and the IP configuration. You should see a local area network connection there. If there is nothing connected, there is no IP address assigned but still you should be able to see 0.0.0.0 or similar. If that is the case it highly suggests that the network card is working and all other networking/IP drivers are installed.
If not, you'll need the windows 98 cd to install them or for the adapter maybe a driver download from the manufacturer.
A static IP address should not be necessary unless there is an incompatibility between windows 98 and the router. That is certainly hard to predict. In general it should not happen. If an static IP address is necessary, you can assign one on the computer. You can use something like 192.168.1.10 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway and DNS address 192.168.1.1 (assuming default settings on the Linksys).
But there is nothing directly related with the router which you would have to install or configure. You should not have to make any changes on the router. I would suggest you simply plug it in and see what happens. If it does not work, run "ipconfig /all" and post the full output of that command. You can try to set a static IP address on the computer as I have suggested to see if it makes any difference.

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