Mac can't connect to home network

I have a MacBook that I purchased back in Jan 07. It can see my home network, but when I select it it goes through the pacing of the Wifi indicator and then goes to a grey wifi indicator with an exclamation mark and it says "Alert! No internet connection"
On top of this, all I get for a mouse icon is the beach ball. I can still do things, except open finder. What is going on with my mac? I ran a disk repair on it already. Any other ideas?

Since I didn't get any advice I tried re-installing snow leopard, except it tells me it can't change the contents of my hard drive. Any ideas?

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hi,
I just bought my first mac, its a macbook with leopard, and am having quite a bit of trouble connecting it to our home network. I'm not much of a computer whiz, so i have no idea what to do. Our network doesn't have any security, but does need a password, and each time i try to connect it after putting in my name and password it says "The Volume cannot be Mounted" and then comes up with an error message saying "an unexpected error occurred". And because i cannot connect to the network i cannot connect to our printers and need them desperately, i start uni in a week!
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What version of Leopard are you using? I asked because Apple just released 10.5.2.
Plus if you are adding a lone Mac to a windows network then read the user reports at MacWindows.com (you should have the site bookmark if you are going to mix Macs into PC networks).
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I have been asked to ask this question here. The original thread can be found at:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web/windows-10-build-9926-cant-connect-to-this-network/e9196f95-5570-4a92-8fae-d29d7d1416b2?msgId=b2246cb5-1038-40dc-98b6-249e8734eb7f
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Hello DatAsian,
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Network authentication attempts have been resumed on this network adapter.
Network Adapter: Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Interface GUID: {************************}
Information 2:
Wired 802.1X Authentication was started.
Network Adapter: Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Interface GUID: {********************}
Connection ID: 0x2
Error:
Wired 802.1X Authentication failed.
Network Adapter: Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Interface GUID: {******************************}
Peer Address: ************
Local Address: ************
Connection ID: 0x2
Identity: -
User: -
Domain: -
Reason: 0x70006
Reason Text: The network does not support authentication and 802.1X is enforced in the profile
Error Code: 0x0
Information 3:
Network authentication attempts have been temporarily suspended on this network adapter.
Network Adapter: Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Interface GUID: {*************************}
Reason Code: The network does not support authentication and 802.1X is enforced in the profile
Length of block timer (seconds): 1200
everything find with Windows 7 and 8.1
days searching the internet but nothing makes sense.
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