Mac wireless internet question and help.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Ok Heres the thing. My kid is part of a school that gave them laptops for the years of hi school. The problem I am faced with at this moment is the thing is a mac. The notebook is a ibookG4 I have no knowledge on macs all my computers are the PCs. My problem i suscribe to dsl and have a modem at home. The modem is picked up by the mac but every time i try to put in the sn to open the network it wont let me. I know it works for i use the wireless connection for my laptop. Any help would be great thanks.

[Verto]

[Asher]
Well if your son wasn't going to some philosopher artsy school, and instead was going to get a real education, he would have been provided with a REAL computer.
[/Asher]

Try the following link:

http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/

Specifically,

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106796

Also

http://www.apple.com/support/airport/

[Verto]

Maybe this well help

1. Get this information from your ISP or network administrator:
* Domain Name Server (DNS) addresses.
* Whether you should choose DHCP or manual IP address configuration, which will be done in Step 6 below.

For manual configuration only:
* IP address
* Router address
* Subnet mask

Tip: Your ISP or local network may provide DNS addresses automatically.

2. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
3. From the View menu, choose Network.
4. Choose Built-in Ethernet from the Show pop-up menu (the Configure pop-up menu prior to Mac OS X 10.1).
5. Click the TCP/IP tab, if necessary.
6. Choose either Manually or Using DHCP from the Configure pop-up menu, as you were instructed by your ISP in Step 1.
7. Type the other information you gathered in Step 1 into the matching fields. Unless your ISP instructs you otherwise, you can ignore the DHCP Client ID field and the Search Domains field.
8. Click Apply Now.
9. Open a Web browser or other TCP/IP application to test your connection to the Internet.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Thanks ill try that im not sure if it will work but i will. this notebook finds my home portal modem but it wont take the password which on my other non mac pc is the serial number to the modem

[Verto]

You are using a wireless router that is plugged into your modem,right?

[Agathon]

Turn on Airport.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm assume she doesn't have an airport, but a regular cable modem, like from Motorola.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

no agathon is right i am trying to go thru airport it wont take the password

[Ben Kenobi]

Awesome. Aggie to the rescue!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

we have a dsl modem. Airport is turned on, it just doesn't seem to like the password.

This is Tubes,btw.

ACK!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

the laptop then ask me the wep password which I assume is the serial number from my modem since that is how it worked with my laptop that is not a mac

[Mrs. Tuberski]

So I put in this pass word then it tells me there is an error trying to join this network

[Imran Siddiqui]

Have you called your DSL provider?

[Agathon]

Some routers are basically Windows only. That might be the problem.

Make sure you have set up the Airport like so. Presumably, you'd want to choose WEP not WPA.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

would i need to if the 4 other non mac pcs are connected and being used right now?? Im new to this my non mac picked up and i didnt need to call i guess i can try that