Wirelessly Connecting Routers

I'm not sure if this has been covered in a previous thread but I've been wondering about this for a while. I have two wireless routers, a WRT54G V.5 and a BEFW11S4 V.2. I'd like to connect them wirelessly as, right now, they are connected by a really long ethernet line. Would it be possible and what are the caveats?

you can't actually do it.. since the wrt54g or the befw11s4 are both wireless routers they only act as wireless transmitter... they don't have capabilities to act as a repeater...
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