Hooking up 2 wrt54g v8 wireless routers

Hello folks. Here is my problem. My brother in law needs a wireless network upstairs and downstairs. So I went out and bought him 2 wrt54g v8 routers and connected one upstairs and tried to connect other one donstairs. No dice. He has a mac pc plugged into router upstairs and I have a cable running to the other router downstairs but I cant get the one downstairs to work at all. What can I do to make this work or what else can I do to extend wireless from upstairs to downstairs and could the mac be causing problems.
Thanks For Help
Bill

Hi.
Both of your Linksys routers have the same IP address (It is 192.168.1.1), when you connect both of them, ofcourse, they will have a conflict. First, you need to change the second router's IP address to =
192.168.1.2 : if you wanted to have file and printer sharing on the computers under Router 1 with Router 2. Do not forget to disable the DHCP server on the 2nd router since all computers will be getting the IP address from the 1st computer. The first router will be connected to Port 1,2,3 or 4 on the 2nd router.
192.168.2.1 : if you wanted to create 2 networks. The first router will be connected only to the Internet Port of the 2nd router.
Dreamers*

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