Imac and Panasonic wireless webcam

I have a 20" imac (1 year old) and use a Buffalo Super G Wireless Router for internet. It works fine and we can access the network seamlessly with both PC and macbook laptops.
I just got a Panasonic Wireless Webcam (to go with a weatherstation already online) - but I can't seem to get the imac to 'find' the camera. It is a Panasonic BL C131 A camera. I did some research earlier and was told by several sources that it works fine with a mac, and that it should set up easily. The software is PC only so it doesn't do anything for me there. Of course my airport is also on.
The camera has a MAC address, but no IP address. Is there a way I can find the IP address from the MAC address?
Does anyone else have a similar camera and can help me get this camera installed/configured?
Thanks for anyone's help!

I thought I would add to my experience with setting up a BL-131A on my Mac incase anyone else is searching for help as I was.
I bought my BL-131A for two purposes; first to watch my dogs during the day, and two to watch my house when on vacation. I liked the idea that it's wireless and has motion detection. Well of course the install CD is just for Windows. Well while searching on google by the camera model and "OS X", I found this tech page about entering 10.0.1.253 into Safari brings up the camera's web software! Thank you!
I also registered at www.viewnetcam2.com for my own web address to view and control the camera from the internet (outside of my home network). The registration instructions said that I would receive an email, which I assumed I would have to receive before the web address worked (as it did not)?
So after four days and no email and the web address still did not work, I did some other google searching about setting up cameras to stream to the internet.
I found out to go to the Airport Utility (in the Utilities folder, OS X 10.5), then select my Airport base model, and click "Manual Setup". Then click the Internet option, and select the NAT tab. Check Enable default host at, and enter the camera's IP address (10.0.1.253). Then click Update to finish the airport configuration.
Next, I went to http://whatismyip.org. This site shows your router's IP address, which then typing that into Safari brings up the camera's web software and I was accessing the camera from the internet (not from my home network)!
But then when taking a closer look at the camera's setup, I found out that under the "Setup" tab, the UPnP needs to be set to "Enable". The default was to "Disable", so that is why my viewnetcam.com did not work! So now I can go through viewnetcam.com, and therefore I turned off that step I had just done in the Airport Utility (but it was handy to know!).
As far as the references about going through http://www.tenm3.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23 for setup instructions, they don't seem to be up-to-date for OS X 10.5, plus it made my head spin as it wasn't just about setting up a camera to stream to the internet.
As far as the camera, it's pretty cool. Of course the audio does not work for Macs and from another web site I read, someone said that Panasonic may do an update in the camera's firmware to make audio work on Macs. Plus the I don't have a mouse with a click wheel, so I can't get the camera to zoom in (which I think it is suppose to do?). I can already see purchasing another camera. Well that is if the audio gets fixed for Macs!
It really does look like Panasonic could include some OS X instructions.

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I was assuming airport in this statement in your first post meant the TC or the Express.. but I now realise we are still in the mass confusion stage where apple calls everything wireless an airport. So what you mean is the airport internal card of the computer??
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