Problems setting up wireless bridge with WHR-300HP2D

[tfurnivall]

I just bought a couple of WHR-300HP2D routers to set up a wireless bridge to the receiver in the living room. The process is (simply put) exceedingly painful. However, I'm here now, and I hope I can find some pointers to changes I might make

Here's what I have so far.

The main router is set up, and working fine (it's supporting this connection right now  ;)). I'm not too worried about the settings, although maybe I should be.

The second router is set up as follows:

Setup->Basic Setup
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WAN Configuration type = Disabled                      ; This was explained once, but I can't find it anywhere. Could this be a problem?
Router name=SDLNet-Slave                                ; I hate manufacturer defaults!
IP Address=192.168.11.2                                   ; Why can't I set them all to 192.168.1.###?
Subnet mask=255.255.255.0
Gateway=192.168.11.1
Local DNS=192.168.11.1                                   ; Read somewhere that this was necessary if I ever wanted to connect 'real' devices
DHCP Server=Forwarder
DHCP Server=192.168.11.1                                ; If I enable DHCP can I set a different range on this router?

Apply settings
Save changes
Restart browser

> Address is available, user id/password are still the defaults, and the setup screen comes up. So far so good. We don't have any wireless configuration done, so I don't expect to have any communication with the other router yet.

Wireless->Basic Settings
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Wireless Mode=Repeater Bridge
SSID=SDLNet                                                                      ;Same as the main router
Broadcast SSID = Disabled
Wireless Network Mode=Mixed                                            ; Same as the main router
Network Configuration=Bridged                                           ; Same as the main router.

Wireless->Wireless Security
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WPA Shared key=                                                              ; The same value as the main router ;)

Apply settings
Save changes
Restart Browser.

Still using the default user-id and password, but now we report the router name at the login prompt. By my thinking we should now be able to 'talk' to the main router.

But either I'm dumb, or it's deaf. And I know it's not deaf, because I'm multi-tasking on this wireless connection to the selfsame main router.


There must be something glaring obvious to all you experts out there, but I'm very new at this, and I'm having a painfully hard time getting this equipment to work.

Any ideas, suggestions?

Thanks,

Tony