Adding a network storage link to a wireless system

Please bear with me...I'm a neophyte about this stuff...
We use a linksys WRT54G wireless router in our home. We use that same router for some work-related stuff. In an attempt to help us better share files - and also access files from afar - someone gave us a Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link. I plugged a simple jump drive into the back of the NSLU2 for storage
It's my understanding that I should be able to hook the NSLU2 up to the wireless router and access the files on that jump drive, both from home and from the web. But the NSLU2 came without instructions (it was just donated by a friend) and I don't know how to make it work. So far, all I've done is plug the jump drive into the back of the NSLU2, plug the NSLU2 into the wall, and connect the NSLU2 to the Wireless router (WRT54G) using an ethernet cable and hooking it into the #2 slot on the back of the router.
Does anyone know what steps I need to take so that computers at my house can access it? And what I need to do to access it remotely?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

There are several PDF documents (manuals, how-to's) and some ZIP (compressed ) files -- likely the install software. one of those zips is over 85MB, so it's probably the software that's on the disk.
Your friend didn't give you the software/manual?
There's a 24-hour tech support number dedicated to that device. 1800-326-7114.
[email protected]
Is your local network in the 192.168.1.xx subnet?
Your device may work if you try to connect to:
192.168.1.77
Did you download the manual?
(Flash Drive needs to be inserted in Disk -2- port

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