Folks,

First off, sorry if I've put this in the wrong conference, it's late, I'm tired, and running out of options.

I'm having trouble getting Macs with Airport cards to talk to non-apple wi-fi routers.

Case 1: G4/400 with airport, running Tiger won't talk to the wi-fi router supplied with a Telstra BigPond install

I've verified that everything on the mac side works as it should, the Machine can see the router but won't connect, despite the password being correct.

Case 2: same as case 1 except the machine is a G4/733, The ISP is Optus, and the wifi router is a D-Link (I think).

Again, everything works on the mac side, the machine can see the hardware but can't connect

I set up both APs, to varying degrees and didn't do anything that would have prohibited the machines from connecting. Hell, the Optus install was open until I enabled WPA2

Silly thing is, my second gen iPod Touch can hook in, but not the macs, I just don't get it.

My searches on the net led me nowhere, or round in circles, so in desperation I figured I'd try here, as I know you guys (and girls) know your sh*t.

TIA,

Nick