Can't connect iBook to WRT54G

I bought a used Macintosh iBook G3 800MHz with dual USB ports and an AirPort (not AirPort Extreme) wireless card that supports 802.11b protocol. It is running OS X 10.4.11 with all updates applied. System Profiler says that the AirPort card's firmware is v9.52 and that the AirPort software is v3.4.9.
I cannot make a wireless connection from the iBook to my Linksys WRT54G v5 wireless router. The router has the latest v1.02.5 firmware applied. I'm trying to use WPA2 Personal set on the router and WPA Personal set on the iBook. WPA2 is supposed to be backward compatible with WPA clients. The error messages I see tell me that:
There is a problem connecting (no kidding)
The router doesn't support the encryption method
The password I'm using is incorrect
I've triple-checked the password, and I know it's right. My daughters' PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 and MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.5 connect using 802.11g protocol to same router using WPA or WPA2 encryption without any problems, and I've read several accounts on the Internet of other people who have the same hardware and software as I do who connect, too.
I've disabled the encryption on the router, and I still can't get the iBook to connect to it. It sees the SSID broadcast but reports an error. I was able to get an error code from the Console, and from searching the Internet I see that it's a timeout, still not terribly helpful. I've tried different combinations of router settings based on the router documentation, trying to make the wireless network more 802.11b compatible, but that hasn't helped, either. I tried setting to router to accept only 802.11b, but still no luck.
I don't know if the AirPort card is bad, but I have no way to test it, nor do I have a known good spare to swap in for it.
This has been an exercise in frustration to the Nth degree. I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can help me resolve this issue.
Mike D.
Message Edited by ekimnisirud on 11-09-2008 09:11 PM

I found that I can attempt to connect to the router using this command from the Terminal's command line:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -A
After first disabling protection on the router and then entering that command line I get prompted for the name of the network, which I enter. After a little while the message I get is always:
Error (88001006) associating to NetName.ComputerName.
I believe that error 88001006 is a timeout, which sort of makes sense, but it doesn't tell me why the connection attempt is timing out.
I looked at the AirPort configuration and saw that it had an IP address beginning with 44. I know that the router is set up to use DHCP to assign a maximum of ten IP addresses in the range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.109, so I manually set the AirPort IP address for the iBook to 192.168.1.104, the same IP address it gets when I use a wired connection to the router. Still no connection.

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