Connecting to Time Capsule with a Powerbook G4

I have 2 computers, a MacBook Pro and an older Powerbook G4. I recently upgraded to TC, and can connect fine with the MacBook, but cannot with the PB G4. the G4 can find the TC, but when i put in the password, it just says connection failed. i only want to connect to the internet with the G4, not backup as that is being done on the MacBook.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
thanks

Thanks for teh OS info. I thought you might have been running an older version of the Mac OS that did not support higher encryption levels. I see that is not the case.
My MBP and PowerBook are both talking to nicely to our AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS), bought right before the the TC came out. The MBP is at 10.5.8 and the PBG4 is at 10.4.11. The only problem I had in setting up the PB was was remembering the right password; I got the PB about a month after I got the MB and AEBS. I had set a somewhat different password that I normally use (getting too old to remember multiple, complex passwords) and was mistyping it.
You might try running Keychain Access in your Utilities folder. Find the entry for the TC and double-click it. In the resulting window, check "show password." You'll need to enter your computer admin password, but the exact way you entered the pass into TC will be revealed.
If that's not the problem and is not, as I suspect, a hardware issue, you may consider posting either in the Leopard Networking forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1222
or in the Airport and Time Capsule forums here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=140

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