Help connecting a WRT54G to a 2Wire 2700HG modem/firewall/wireless router

I recently had to replace my DSL modem with a new 2Wire 2700HG.  I have this hard-wired setup working fine both wired and wirelessly to a laptop:
-----phone line-----DSL Modem------ethernet cable---------PC
A friend gave me a Linksys WRT54G that I would like to hook into the setup like this: (I had never connected the wrt54G to the old modem).
-----phone line-----DSL Modem------ethernet cable---------LINKSYS ------ ethernet cable-----------PC
I reset the WRT54G and ran the setup program, starting with the top setup and connecting and powering-up the WRT54G as instructed by the setup program.  At the end of the process the setup program tested the connection to the internet and found taht it could not connect.  The instructions were to reset the WRT54G and try again or power down the WRT54G and power it back up.  I did both of these things and still it could not acces the internet through the WRT54G (I can still access the net wirelessly through the DSL Modem.  My question is CAN this setup work, and if so, how do you set it up to get it to work?  As near as I can tell the WRT54G is not communicating with the 2700HG (DSL Modem) at all.  Help!

if the 2wire router is connected on the internet port of the wrt54g .. access the setup page of the wrt54g and go to the "status" tab..check the internet ip add...if it is 192.168.1.x , change the local ip add of the wrt54g to 192.168.2.1 .. do a power cycle and check whether it works
if not , connect the wrt54g from its ethernet port to the ethernet port of the 2wire router .. change the ip add of the wrt54g to be in the range of the ip add of the 2wire router...and disable the DHCP server of the wrt54g ..

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