PB with Orinoco card won't connect using OS 9

Could someone help me get the following configuration to work.
G3 Wallstreet with Lucent Orinoco silver card running OS 9.2.2 won't connect to internet via an Extreme BS running under OS 10.4/DSL.
Using airport extension 2.0.4 and the airport card sees the BS (strong signal indicated), but cannot connect. When press the connect button, it starts to dial an old modem phone number and fails.
BTW, the BS works perfectly with newer Powerbooks running OS 10.4.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mini 1.5 GHz/SD/GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hello Robert,
Does your desktop show your Orinoco card as being
mounted? Mine has an icon sitting on the desktop
(Wavelan IEEE).
Yes, on desktop, with the name "Airport PC Card".
When I double click on it, it brings
up the TCP/IP control panel.
Double clicking icon brings up an options box (?) with CONNECT and TURN AIRPORT OFF buttons. Also shows signal level (mine is high) Airport and BS id numbers. This options box shows AIRPORT in the menu bar at the top. I believe this is what you describe as TCP/IP control panel. However, if I select the TCP/IP control panel I get a box with TCP/IP in the menu bar and it shows setup parameters which seem correct.
Airport in the Apple menu gives me a dialog box
with a CONNECT button. It shows my AEBS name to the
left of the button.
Under Status, mine shows my network name and
"Status not available". I don't get too wrapped
around this as it is currently working.
Mine shows AEBS name and directly below "Not connected to the Internet".
Below that is signal strength bar with strong signal indicated.
Do you have a triangle with "Show settings" beside
it. If you click on the triangle, what does it show.
Mine shows "Airport On" with a button to turn Airport
Off. Under Airport Network, there is a
pulldown next to "Choose network" which shows
"Computer to Computer" and my network name. I have my
network name selected.
Yes, have triangle. When triangle pointing down see:
Airport On and a button to turn Airport Off.
Under Airport Network, in Choose Network is the name of my AEBS. Another choice, not selected, is Create computer to computer network. Third choice is
complicated number sequence that seems to also be a.k.a. name for the BS.
The AppleTalk control panel also shows connect via
"Airport PC Card" and Current Zone shows "no zones
available", but I think it should show
"wireless".
Mine shows "Wavelan IEEE" and "no zones available".
Wonder why mine has different name (Airport PC Card). Tried, but cannot rename the airport card icon on desktop.
I hope that some of this is helpful to you and that
we can get you up and running in a minimum of time.
New info:
On my HD I have a folder titled WaveLAN Install Disk. It contains a number of files which I assume I downloaded off a CD or the internet many months ago when I had an ethernet connection. Some files are installers which I probably already used (no record of the my early install steps). There are a couple of WaveLAN extensions in my extensions folder (WaveLAN CARD and WAVELAN DLPI. There is also 3 Airport extensions (Airport AP, Airport AP support and Airport PC Card). Do you see the same?
Thanks
Robert
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