My home network is running thru a Netgear FWG114P "Wireless
Firewall/Print Server". My apartment is wired so that 10 different
locations are run into 1 closet. It runs problem free for both its
wired and wireless connections. It's connected to a cable modem for
Internet access.

I swap in and out the 6 connections which I don't have room for in
the Netgear unit depending on the location I need to connect from.

I recently brought home from my office Bay Networks BayStack 350T-HD
10/100 Autosense Switch with 24 ports.

I thought I could simply plug all of my computer connections into the
switch then the switch into the Netgear unit. Keep the Netgear unit
uplink to the modem and I would be done. But, none of the computer
connections worked. Also the only light on the switch that came on was
the one leading to the Netgear unit.

I tried cross-over cables in each connection and while the light came
on for the switch to Netgear connection (as it had before) nothing else
seemed to connect with a cross-over cable.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing? Does the switch belong at a
different place in the process?

Many thanks in advance