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I am running the access point in the default AP configuration but it can be apparently switched to be a bridge also.

AIUI, wireless stations can be in one of four modes: AP, AP client, wireless-bridge, and ad-hoc. The following combinations can communicate:
  • One station in AP mode and all the others in AP client mode
  • All stations in ad-hoc mode
  • Two stations, no more no less, in wireless-bridge mode.
So for your setup, you want the router to be in AP mode (which it will be by default), and everything else to be in AP client mode. Your laptop and your ethernet-to-wireless bridge will both be in AP client mode by default. The confusion arises with your 802.11g access point: you should switch it into "AP client" mode, but it's ambiguous whether its setting for "bridge mode" turns it into a wireless-bridge setup (where only the station configured as the other end of the bridge can communicate with it), or whether it makes it behave like an ethernet-to-wireless bridge (where it's an AP client, possibly one of many).

Peter