Getting two wireless AP's to work together for laptop and linux workstation

Hello guys, I have a bit of a problem. Looking for some comments.
First, what I want to obtain is that my laptop get access on the internet
via it's wireless nic.

Background and devices in play:
1) Netgear MA401 wireless NIC connected to the Dell Latitude Laptop
2) Microsoft Base Station wireless Cable/DSL Router (MN-500) (4 port sw as
well)
3) Netgear Wireless Cable/DSL router (MR814) (4 port sw as well)
4) Linux Box acting as a fileserver/Webserver/Mailserver/Workhorse (running
Slackware 9.0).

Problem:
Through MANY attempts to connect to the main Internet access point (MS Base
Station) via my Netgear MA401 card with 40bit WEP turned on, I have given up
on getting the two to communicate. I have used the HEX values as well as the
passphrase. But I CAN connect to my Netgear MR814 via 40bit WEP
successfully.


1 solution I came up with was to connect the WAN port of the Netgear MR814
to one of the ports of the MN-500 router (to be able to get internet access
through it) and setting a default gateway on the Netgear. I'm getting DHCP
setup from the MR814 to the laptop wireless NIC. After this is done I can
access the net. Unfortunately, I have only 1 wire from the MN-500, and I
have it connected to my Linux workstation (to provide mailserver/webserver
services).

So.. with this 1 wire from the MN-500, how can I get both my Linux
fileserver, and my laptop access the internet wirelessly (under 40bit WEP)?

Thanks..

Xytek