Wired desktop and wireless Router Question

I have a wireless setup for my laptop(XP_Home) and I wanted to add my
wired desktop(98SE) to the network as I don't have a wireless PC card.
The problem is my desktop doesnot have a CAT5 input only phone line. I
was until now connecting to my cable modem using USB port but now the
wireless router only has the CAT5 so I am not able to add my desktop
to is using USB.

I tried to connect my desktop directly to the Cable modem but a I am
not able to connect to Internet.

Please help. Do I need to buy additional hardware to connect my
desktop to the wireless router ???


Thanks a lot.

Sounds like you just need to purchase a cheap network card and a cable
to connect to the router, that would be the easiest way.

[email]ritskits@yahoo.com[/email] (surbhi) wrote in message news:<91238b26.0409141925.3c60f42d@posting.google.com>...[color=blue]
> I have a wireless setup for my laptop(XP_Home) and I wanted to add my
> wired desktop(98SE) to the network as I don't have a wireless PC card.
> The problem is my desktop doesnot have a CAT5 input only phone line. I
> was until now connecting to my cable modem using USB port but now the
> wireless router only has the CAT5 so I am not able to add my desktop
> to is using USB.
>
> I tried to connect my desktop directly to the Cable modem but a I am
> not able to connect to Internet.
>
> Please help. Do I need to buy additional hardware to connect my
> desktop to the wireless router ???
>
>
> Thanks a lot.[/color]