802.11 n/g setup not working?

I have a cable modem, which is connected to an Apple Airport Base
Station Extreme, set to use 802.11n for my Macbook Pro.

This works perfectly.

I also have a Linksys WRT54G gateway/router with standard firmware. My
plan is to have this connected to the Airport via crossover cable, and
allow my friends/family to connect to it on 802.11g.

This is what I tried to do so far:

- Connect the WRT54G and Airport by cable using only the LAN ports.
- Configured the WRT54G to run as a Router, rather than Gateway.
- Disabled DHCP on the WRT54G.

The problem I'm having, is that when I try and connect via the WRT54G,
I get a 169 IP. I assumed that it would forward me onto the Airport,
and assign me an IP there.

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? I just want to be able to
allow n&g wireless access to my Internet connection!

-E


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pepsione <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
> I have a cable modem, which is connected to an Apple Airport Base
> Station Extreme, set to use 802.11n for my Macbook Pro.
>
> This works perfectly.
>
> I also have a Linksys WRT54G gateway/router with standard firmware.
My
> plan is to have this connected to the Airport via crossover cable, and
> allow my friends/family to connect to it on 802.11g.
>
> This is what I tried to do so far:
>
> - Connect the WRT54G and Airport by cable using only the LAN ports.
> - Configured the WRT54G to run as a Router, rather than Gateway.
> - Disabled DHCP on the WRT54G.
>
> The problem I'm having, is that when I try and connect via the WRT54G,
> I get a 169 IP. I assumed that it would forward me onto the Airport,
> and assign me an IP there.
>
> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? I just want to be able to
> allow n&g wireless access to my Internet connection!
>
> -E
>
>
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>

just out of curiousity, why did you want to disable DHCP on the router?
I thought that is needed so the router can assign IP to the devices that
want to connect to it?

Needy wrote:
> pepsione <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news(E-Mail Removed):
>
>>
>> I have a cable modem, which is connected to an Apple Airport Base
>> Station Extreme, set to use 802.11n for my Macbook Pro.
>>
>> This works perfectly.
>>
>> I also have a Linksys WRT54G gateway/router with standard firmware.
> My
>> plan is to have this connected to the Airport via crossover cable,
>> and allow my friends/family to connect to it on 802.11g.
>>
>> This is what I tried to do so far:
>>
>> - Connect the WRT54G and Airport by cable using only the LAN ports.
>> - Configured the WRT54G to run as a Router, rather than Gateway.
>> - Disabled DHCP on the WRT54G.
>>
>> The problem I'm having, is that when I try and connect via the
>> WRT54G, I get a 169 IP. I assumed that it would forward me onto
>> the Airport, and assign me an IP there.
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? I just want to be able to
>> allow n&g wireless access to my Internet connection!
>>
>> -E
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> View this thread:
>> http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=34835
>> http://www.wirelessforums.org
>>
>>
>
> just out of curiousity, why did you want to disable DHCP on the
> router? I thought that is needed so the router can assign IP to the
> devices that want to connect to it?

Aside from that, i'm wondering why he turned WIRELESS off (Configured the
WRT54G to run as a Router, rather than Gateway) and expects it to still work
as if the wireless was still on.....

I have mine connected together both with different ssid's/dhcp on/connected
via the lan ports, and it works great for multiple devices/connections...