Setting Up Wireless: 2 Routers

Overheal

hello boyos. its a busy computer week for me between virus removal, cracking my laptop screen and now trying to troubleshoot a home network setup.

I'll try and narrow down the setup quickly:

[DSL Modem]----[Linksys WRT54G(1)]>>>>>>>>>[Laptops A + B]
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| [PC One]
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[Linksys WRT54G(2)]

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[PC Two]
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[PC Three]

The first problem I discovered was obviously the wireless: having 2 identical linksys connections really confused the laptop setup. So I very quickly named router 1 and disabled the wireless antenae on router 2.

But now heres the other problem, That PCs 2 and 3 cant connect to the Internet, unless they are linked up directly with router 1 (big mad 50 foot cables - I have them handy, but we dont want them running across the house). Currently theres already 1 running across the 2 modems but to get this really working ive had to use 2.

So the way I would like it to be set up (hopefully):

[DSL Modem]---[Router 1] >>>>>>>>>>>>> [Router 2]--[PC Two and Three]
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[PC One]

Where >>>>> is the wireless signal. The 2 laptops will ideally link up through router 1.

My question is, how do I set up router 2 to connect to 1, and act as an access point?

Spear

Set router 2 to client bridge mode. Works for me here with two routers. Turn on RIP on the two routers as well so they'll exchange routing tables with each other.