WRT610N Internet port connected wirelessly to another wireless router

I was sold the WRT610N (by a Dell rep) having been told I could do the following:
I have a Netgear 802.11b/g wireless router hooked up to a cable modem.  I want to use the WRT610N to access the Internet wirelessly through the netgear, the plug an Ethernet cable into the back of the WRT610N and plug a PC on the other end of that cable so that the PC can hit the Internet.  How do I do that (configuration)?

As sold off the shelf, the WRT610N can't do that.  What you should have bought instead was an internal or external network adapter.
Or, you could load 3rd party firmware (e.g. DD-WRT) to the WRT610N to configure it to act as a client device.

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