Mac does not use WLAN link

Hi!
A friend of mine got a WLAN router (Fritzbox SL) and an USB stick to connect his Mac (running Mac OS 10.2.8) to the internet. He followed all installation instruction, i.e. configured the WLAN router and installed the WLAN client software on his Mac. But it didn't worked. So he cried for help.
I have pretty good new how about IP, but don't know much about Mac OS. Anyhow, I tried to help.
What I saw was:
* The WLAN router configuration was OK. My Win XP laptop connected without any problems.
* From the WLAN routers point of view, the Mac was connected: I saw it's Ethernet-MAC address and the Mac was assigned an IP address via DHCP.
* On the Mac, there was no connection to the internet. On the network configuration, DHCP was selected. But the IP address shown here was different (different network) from the one I saw on on the WLAN router. And below the IP address it said "manually assigned". But we did not manually assign that address.
My friend connected the Mac via Modem to the internet before. Maybe, some static routing info here that's causing the trouble?
I asked my friend for a "shell", a command line tool, because I'd to some simple things like a netstat, a ping or a traceroute. Isn't that Mac OS a UNIX based one? There should be tools like these?
So: Any pointer?
Well, finally, just connected the Mac via an Ethernet cable to the WLAN router (and disabled its WLAN function). This works fine. But it should be possible to use the WLAN as well?!
I am really somewhat surprised. I former times, it was more the MS Windows software that was causing trouble, not working fine. Now, I see that XP already includes WLAN support, either with WEP or WAP encryption, working without any problem, but the Mac OS don't. So, you need som bloddy piece of software which also only provides this pooor WEP encryption and does not work at all.
What happend to the so sophisticated Mac OS?

...and an USB stick to connect his Mac (running Mac OS 10.2.8) to the internet...Did you install the appropriate drivers? USB wireless dongles require the appropriate Mac OS X drivers to operate. The bad part is that these drivers frequently do not get along with OS X and therefore are not recommended.
The best thing is to get the appropriate AirPort card or AirPort Extreme card for the friend's Mac.
The next best thing is to use an Ethernet wireless adapter. These devices require no drivers and therefore will work with any Ethernet device regardless of OS.

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