Help needed setting up wireless home connection

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"> Hi all, I recently got DSL at home and bought a Linksys wrt54G in
order
> to get wireless for my labtop as well as getting a free firewall
> packaged in.
>
> Anyway, I also have a couple machines on the other side of my room
and
> rather then buy individual wireless cards for all of them, I got a
> NetGearME102 access piont, which as I understand it can do bridging.
> What I want to do is setup the NetGear ME102 as a wireless bridge so
> that I can use it's ethernet port and a hub on the other side of hte
> room to connect the other computers.

I checked the ME102 product sheet and I dont see that it can function
as a wireless client, (i.e. ap client mode or repeater mode)
although it does say it acts as a bridge between wired and wireless.




>
> The problem is I can't seem to get it to work -- am I completely off
as
> to weather or not this should be able to work. (I have very little
> wireless experience -- but I dont see why it wouldnt work) Isn't
this
> exactly what a bridge is supposed to do? Is the problem that one is
a
> linksys and the other is a netgear? Since they both talk the
standards
> I would think brand isn't important.
>
> Anyway, any tips or actually just confirming this should be able to
> work would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> ---Brian
>