Can't Connection With Airport (card)

My G5 can see my network, which uses WPA2 Personal.
I can connect with my laptop (a MacBook), but with my tower does not.
It can see the network, but I get "Connection timeout" as part of the message. Password is correct, which I know because of the checkbox, "Show password".
I'm using a D-Link Router (DIR-655), and can mess with all kinds of settings if need be. But I suspect it's my Airport card, which needs help.
Any clues would be much appreciated.

The router does use 802.11g, along with 802.11n; it can send a mixture. I was shocked at how slow the G5 does wireless web stuff.
FWIW, the way around the timeout problem seemed to be to reboot the router through a browser-based control panel I was able to pull up on my MacBook.
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