Rosewill RNX-EasyN4 as repeater/bridge to WRT54 issue

Thuleman

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Rosewill RNX-EasyN4 (set to wireless G only), trouble setting that one up as repeater/bridge for my PS3/TV/Wii. Strangest part is that I did have that working at one point in time but had to use the router for something else and now I can't get it to work anymore. Very bizarre. Rosewill support was prompt, but not really helpful.

I have a WRT54GS2 connected to the DSL modem. The internal address space is 192.168.1.x, the WRT assigns DHCP addresses from *.100 to *.149. The RNX is manually set to 192.168.1.110, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.1.1 as address, mask, and gateway. It also shows that it is connected to my WRT via wireless. From a laptop (manually given the 192.168.1.111 ip) connected by cable to the LAN port of the RNX I can ping 192.168.1.1, but I can not access the web.

Any suggestions as to where to look for the problem will be highly appreciated. I am wondering whether this is now actually an issue on the WRT side of things. Thanks in advance.
 
Doh, figured it out. As part of the step of the RNX one has to use a static IP on the laptop NIC. I did that, except I didn't give it any DNS server. Once I set it to the Google DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) it all worked. ;)
 
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