Help with Airport, DSL, PPPoE

Here is the deal: I have a DSL connection in my iMac with a DSL modem (Trendnet TDM-300) and PPPoE connection. The Internet works when I use a cable directly plugged to my iMac but when I create a Network (The imac is connected via Ethernet to the Airport and I use a PowerBook for Wireless) with my Airport Extreme, I can't connect to the internet althoght the Airport network is OK. It appears "Looking for PPPoE host...".
I recently upgraded the Airport Firmware to 5.7 and I'm using Tiger.
Any help??
PS: Sorry for my English, it's not my first languaje.
iMac G4, Flat-Panel Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I have made this work but it took some doing and my experience may be of some help to others.
Befor entering the world of PPPoE my set up was as follows.
Airport Extreme
connected wirelessly to a G4 powerbook
connected WAN to an ADSL modem
connected LAN to a hub and a desktop G4 and printers
all working fine
I purchase a "NOW" radio modem ( the modem connects using radio to a local cell) This uses PPPoE to make the connection to the internet. It is not the same as airport
In the end I used this procedure to get it working
1) Turn Airport off
2) Connect the radio modem to my laptop with an ethernet cable
3) Go to system preferences - network - Built in ethernet - AppleTalk and turn appletalk off
4) Go to PPPoE and turn it on and as a minimum enter you Account name and Password
5) Press the Apply Now button you should see activity on the LAN and WAN lights if you have them on your modem
6) In your web browser go to the internal page of the modem in my case 192.168.1.1 and set up the same user name and password. You may be able to confirm that this is accepted from within this page.
7) Either way confirm that you can access the internet from this computer only
8) Disconnect the ethernet cable from your computer and plug it into the WAN side of your Airport ( In my case I was replacing the ADSL lead with the Radio Modem lead)
9) On you computer turn "connect using PPPoE" off and turn Airport on
10) Lunch AirPort Admin Utility . app which is in Utilities select your base station and press the configure button enter password if necessary
11) In the Internet tab select connect using "PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)" enter your (ISP)account name and press the change password button in this dialog enter your (ISP)password twice tick the Always stay connected and leave all the rest as they are
12) In the Network tab tick Distribute IP addresses and activate. Share a single IP address (using DHCP and NAT) If you are your own network and you do not care what your internal IP address is you can leave the rest of this page as it is. If it does mater to you I assume you use one of the options in the pop up. this is confusing as there is a lot of talk about using the router ie Airport as a bridge but you do not and you do issue IP addresses to your net work but not to the Modem.
13) Just about there now hit the update button and let the new settings update the Airport base station (router). At this stage you might have expected it to work but it did not for me
14) Quite AirPort Admin Utility . app and lunch the AirPort Setup Assistant.app
15) Select change settings on an existing AirPort Base Station make sure it is your base station and log in accept all the settings and on the last page update the base station.
This done I can connect to the internet from my laptop via airport from my desk top via ethernet, I can communicate between my two computer using appletalk and I can print to my ethernet printers.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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