Hey Ryan, chiming in again. You might want to update your guide to reflect the new situation with the N version of the Express. I finally figured it out, however there is no logic to the solution:

- Set up the Express N as stated above.
- Make sure to run it in b/g compatible mode. I’m not certain if the “n (b/g comp)” mode also works.
- Make also sure to enter the WEP key with a prepended $ sign.
- Now the weird part: In your WRT54G setup you have to add the LAN MAC address of you Express instead of the WLAN one. I’ve currently entered both of them so I’m not sure about the effect of leaving away the WLAN one.

Voilà!

When I find time I’ll dig further into this and post more findings. For now I won’t touch the **** thing anymore since I already spent too much time figuring this hack out.

just to let you and everybody here know, I’ve successfully set up a WDS some time ago using the Express G version. I ordered the new Airport Express N the day it became available and have since unsuccessfully tried to integrate it into the WDS network.

Can anyone confirm this?

linksys wrt54g v2 airport EXTREME BASETATION

Internet is working on LAN and WLan
ah btw - for the mac adress of the basestaion i used the lan number ..

thank you, you saved my day

- The newer WRT54G routers (V8), support WDS out of the box indeed, BUT I could not get it to work with an Airport Express if WAP was enabled.. you are limited to WEP or no encryption. Some other places on the web state that WAP is possible.. I do not believe this is correct.

- Its been said before but its easy to make that mistake.. you need the MAC address of the WIRELESS interface. When you click on Status, the one that appears right there is the MAC of the WAN port.. click on “WIRELESS”, and then you will see the one you need.. do NOT input the local LAN MAC address either (so bottomline, there are 3 addresses… you want the WIRELESS MAC address)… so simple, yet so easy to forget that detail.

Hi, hell i need help, and this sems as the place were i can get it, i want to configure mi WRT300n Router with mi Airport Express, haw can i do this (if posible at all)

Thanks

I found that it worked better if I used different names (one is called ‘Access’ and the other ‘Access Jr’), because my AP’s are close together, and the wireless signal between up and downstairs is wonky. I had a lot of skipping in my airtunes before I did this.

Oh, and I’m using DD-WRT on an Asus WL500G-D.

Thanks for putting up this great guide!