Complicated LAN

Right, I am in need of a solution for a complicated problem. Any help
would be really appreciated.

There is a wireless router downstairs which is working fine. One
high-spec desktop of mine running windows xp is connected to that
router. Five other laptops which are not mine are connected to the
router as well so they still need to be working at the end.

I have three other low-spec desktops running various flavours of linux
I want connected together (I have an ethernet hub, cable, ETC) but also
able to access the internet through the router without wireless cards
in each.

Would it be possible to connect two of the desktops to one of them
using the hub and turning the one they are connected to into a DHCP
server or maybe putting a wireless network card into one and using ICS?


Here is an overview of the current situation at:
http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=networkpz7.gif

I also have a hub with 4 ethernet cables in it which I could use.

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