WRT54Gv3 Wireless bridge Problem

I seem to be having an issue bridging my wireless router. I have high gain antennas installed and recently flashed to DD-WRT firmware. At first, no problem. Wireless and wired both worked. Then Wireless worked and i could get to settings with 192.168.1.1. but wired wasn't connecting. I would get a connection error and 192.168.1.1 did not work.Now, I can connect wired, but no global icon for internet. and wireless comes up with 3 different names on site survey. sometimes its the network name (linksys) , sometimes the name of the router(Midian), and sometimes the name that USED to be the router name (linksys 2). I cannot find "linksys 2" anywhere on the router setup(192.168.1.1), so i do not understand why it only sometimes comes up! Shouldn't i be able to connect to the (bridged) router wirelessly even if i dont have a signal from the main router? I didn't change any settings from when both wireless and wired worked, and now, where i can only connect to the router wired. Wireless disapeared!
Thanks in advance,
DTM

As you have already uploaded the DD-WRT firmware on your Router, and using the Router in a Bridge Mode. To make your Router work in a Bridge Mode, first thing which you need to check the Wireless Settings of your Primary Router. Make sure you have assign a Unique name to the Wireless Network and Set the channel to 11 to avoid any kind of Interference and let the SSID Broadcast should be Enable and the Security Level Which you have setup on your Primary Router.
Then on your WRT54G Router, you need to search for the Wireless Network of your Primary Router and then connect to it using the Security Key which you have set on the 1st Router and make sure that both the Router have a Different IP address. By Default the Linksys Router Default IP address is 192.168.1.1, Make sure both the Router has different IP address.
If your 1st Router IP address is 192.168.1.1 then you need to change the LAN IP of the Linksys Router to 192.168.1.2. These will make your both the Routers to work and the computers connected to the Linksys Router will be able to go Online (Wired / Wireless).

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