seting up a network over 2 routers

in home i have a 2 routers:1 normal and 1 wireless.

now is the problem thati dont have any network anymore (file and printersharing) internet is oke

my dads laptop is connected to the normal router ,iam wireless and a third computer is conected to the wireless router but with a cable

if i now lok in my network places i only see my laptop and computer (both connected to the same router), how can i add my dads laptop on this network (connected to the normal router)

 

i ave googled this but could find a good site that tells me how to set up a mixed configuration.
please help me

 

It depends on which you've got connected to your cable modem. If you've got the wired router connected to your cable modem, then you'll need to make your wireless router an access point.

You can do this by connecting the wireless router to your wired router using the LAN port of your wireless router to a LAN port of your wired router. Then, you'll need to turn off the DHCP on your wireless router and change the IP of your wireless router so that it is within the same subnet as your wired router. DHCP should be enabled on your wired router.

For e.g., if your wired router has an IP address of 192.168.120.245, you will need to change the IP of your wireless router so that it is within the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.120.1). You should also make sure that the IP address you assign your wireless router is outside the DHCP range of your wired router. For e.g., if your wired router has the DHCP range of 192.168.120.100-192.168.120.199, then you can't assign your wireless router any IP address within that range (which is why I mentioned that you should assign it 192.168.120.1).

You can keep whatever security settings that you had set using your wireless router.

If all this works out, and your wireless router actually works as a access point, you should be able to connect to your network and get assigned an IP address within the DHCP range as defined in your wired router.

If you're not getting a connection,
1. Try pinging your wireless and wired routers.
2. Try unplugging/restarting both your routers and cable modem. Cable modem followed by routers.
3. Remember that your wireless router is to be connected to your wired router via LAN ports on both ends. Cable modem should be connected to your wired router via its WAN port.
4. Make sure DHCP is enabled on the wired router and disabled on the wireless router. Also make sure that IP address of wireless is outside the DHCP range of the wired router.

This should generally work. It's worked for everyone whom I've helped setup their wireless networks. If it doesn't work, post back here, and I will try my very best to help you solve your problem, although I can't really promise anything given that I can't physically be there.

cheers!