Question : Routing problem with Linksys WRT54G router

I have three sites setup with VPN tunnels between them using Linksys BEFVP41 routers setup as follows:

Site A:
Internal router IP = 192.168.1.1
1 tunnel to site B, 1 tunnel to site C

Site B:
Internal router IP = 192.168.2.1
1 tunnel to site A, 1 tunnel to site c

Site C:
Internal router IP = 192.168.3.1
1 tunnel to site A, 1 tunnel to site B

Everything works perfectly.  I have setup mapped drives to the various PCs on each site to allow users to access data on any PC they want on the wide area network.

Now I want to add wireless network capabilities to each site.  I already had Linksys WRT54G wired / wireless routers setup at each site before the VPN option was setup.  Each WRT54G router used internal IP 192.168.1.1 before the VPN.  I was advised to change the WRT54G routers to use 192.168.1.2 at site A, 192.168.2.2 at site B and 192.168.3.2 at site C and to setup the router as a gateway and turn off DHCP (DHCP is enabled on the BEFVP41 VPN router).  All desktop PC's use static IP's appropriate to their location (example - site A workstation A = 192.168.1.201, workstation B = 192.168.1.202) (Site B workstation A = 192.168.2.201, workstation B = 192.168.2.202) etc.  All desktop PCs work perfectly.

I want any notebook PCs to draw their IP directly from the DHCP server at each site (which is the BEFVP41 router).

My problem is that at site A 192.168.1.x series IP location the notebook PC obtains the dynamic IP number perfectly from the DHCP server.  But at each of the other sites it keeps coming up with a no access or limited access error message and then uses the default Windows IP number for a stand alone PC.  It then can not access the network or Internet (even if I force the issue by assigning a static IP appropriate to the location).

What gives?  How can I make this work other than purchasing Linksys WAP54G wirless access points and using them instead of the WRT54G router?

Thanks for your help.  I hope I laid this question out so it is clear.

Answer : Routing problem with Linksys WRT54G router

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