LaCie Mini HD and Base Station

Is it possible to use the extra usb and firewire connections wirelessly? i have my Lacie hard drive set up with my base station and it works fine but if i plug a usb peripheral into the hard drive nothign happens. Does it have to be hard wires to work? Because on the Base Station description it says you can get a usb hub for it to allow more connections (airport itself) surely plugging the hard drive into the airport this should be the same thing?

Presumably, if I had a LaCie HD and Hub and an AirPort Extreme, I could connect the USB hub of the LaCie to the AirPort and then connect a USB printer and the HD on the LaCie to the USB hub to share both the HD and my printer wirelessly? It just couldn't support other USB devices wirelessly?
Thanks in advance...
Jon

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