WRT54G V5 wont connect to internet.

Question

I am replacing a WRH54G with a WRT54G.  First I unplugged everything and waited 5 minutes. Then I plugged my ethernet cord from the DSL modem into the WRT54G. Then I plugged in the DSL modem. I waited for the lights to stop blinking. Then I plugged in the WRT54G and waited for LEDs to show connection. Then I plugged the ethernet cord from the WRT54G to the computer. Then I turned on the computer. I was able to access the Interface for the WRT54G but I was not able to connect to the internet. I tried power cycling multiple times both the DSL modem and the WRT54G. I was unable to access the internet. Finally I plugged the WRH54G back in and everything worked fine. Any ideas as to why the old WRH54G can connect to the internet and the WRT54G cannot?
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Answer 1

Actually in the above statement it still didn't work but ten minutes ago I did figure it out in large part to the helpful post. Because I wasn't getting IP addresses on my new router I wondered if some how they were getting stuck on my old router. So here is what I did. I had my old router connected. I logged into the old router and under status I clicked WAN IP release. Then I unplugged the old router. Next I plugged in the internet cord from the modem to the internet port of my new router and connected first ethernet port of the router to the computer. Then I plugged the new modem in. When I logged in I saw the router had grabbed the needed IP addresses. My internet is now up and running and thanks to the QOS feature on my new router I can watch youtube videos and be on my VOIP google phone at the same time with out garbling! The key was knowing that the problem was that my new router wasn't grabbing the IP addresses. That gave me the idea that somehow they were stuck on my old router. When I released them the new router grabbed new ones. I know that's not technically how it works but it solved the problem. In bullet form here were the solution steps.
Verizon DSL DHCP
1. Log into old router.
2. Click on Status
3. Click on WAN IP Release
4. Unplug all cords from old router.
5. Plug internet cord from modem into internet port on new router.
6. Plug ethernet cable into port 1 on the modem.
7. Connect ethernet from port 1 on the modem into the computer
8. Plug in power cord to the new router.
After I did those things the internet was working fine along with all my other stuff hooked up to the router. I logged into the new router, looked under status and saw the valid IP addresses and such. Thanks for the help. Hopefully someone kind find this if they ever have the same problem. I do wonder though how the IP addresses got stuck so to speak on the old router or rather why I had to a WAN IP release on the old router before the new router could get a valid IP address.