Using Wireless Box IV as a simple wireless hub

[andrewf554]

Hi all,

I’ve just signed up to O2, and they've sent me a Wireless Box IV (TG587nv2, software 8.4.2.R). I already have an ADSL2+ modem and would like to use the O2 Wireless Box as simply a wireless hub.

I have managed to telnet into the box as SuperUser, but it's all pretty unfamiliar, and I’m not quite sure how to start. What I want to do is:

* Make it stop attempting to connect to ADSL
* Put it in 'bridge' mode.
* Switch off DHCP, so that DHCP requests are served from my server on the LAN
* Allow administration over the LAN ports as well as over the WLAN.

Have tried just plugging it into a LAN switch, but that seems to screw up LAN traffic. (Don’t think it’s DHCP-related. It looks like it might be messing with ARP. Or something. Maybe?)

Any help, or pointers to documentation on the device, would be very welcome.

Thanks,

–Andrew