I feel kinda stupid. Most of my trouble seems to have been not setting up correctly the "trusted" ip range in the firewall software resident on each pc on the LAN. So, now, no more IPX/SPX, using DHCP through the 4 port LinkSys router, the wireless pc is working fine, printer prints. All systems seem Go.
What threw me completely off track was that if IPX/SPX was installed then the LAN functioned perfectly between the WinXP boxes--but the Linux boxes wouldn't connect to the XP boxes.
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