I am trying to get a clamshell iBook (OS9.2) with Airport
card to get wireless Internet from my Netgear router
(DG834G). I already have a Dell PC wirelessly connected
with no problems. The iBook shows a good signal and IP
address from the router, and the router sees the iBook and has assigned it an IP address, so
why can't the laptop access the Internet? Any help please - I have spent days on this - must be something I've overlooked. Is anyone out there using an iBook clamshell with OS9 and connecting to a Netgear router with no problems?

Both wireless card and router will talk to each other, but
data will not flow if the router hasn't been told to allow the
airport card on the network- so you basically need to
configure the router. I would immediately suspect that the
router has either a password or, although IPs are assigned,
does not have the airport address logged and enabled. Make
sure your router isn't wep enabled and then try.

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insuficient info re what kind of security/encryption, if any,
you have on the router.

OS 9 will only connect with simple WEP security. if that... you
should have 9.2.2 on the clamshell. since these iBooks work
well with 10.3 this is what you should be running.