can a wirells router be configered to bridge?

[joes]

hi all
i have 2 netgear DG834G routers
1 is working 100% has the house network.
can the second one be configered as wire less bridge to the other? is how any ideas would be good as i am not goodwith networking
thanks
joe

[connercole]

According to Netgear this is NOT supported, but with a bit of fiddling apparently it can be made to work
Form the Netgear forums I have found the information below
The DG834G will need to be given a fixed IP address (apparently it cannot receive an DHCP IP address from the ask4 router)
You will need to take a guess at an IP address that you can use, as I assume that you cannot access the ask4 router to see what the DHCP address range is
You cannot use an IP address within the ask4 DHCP range because of possible conflicts
e.g. ask4 router DHCP range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.100, set DG834G to 192.168.0.101
Turn off DHCP on the DG834G
Setup Wireless on DG834G
As I said, all of the above is from the Netgear forum, so I cannot say whether it will work or not
The DG834G may not allow the ask4 DHCP assigned IP addresses to pass-through to your PC/Laptop
Also your DG834G needs to be version 3 or higher, with the latest firmware

[Jaffa]

You could try ddr-wrt or openwrt with that router, that should allow you to use it as a bridge.