PB won't wireless internet !

Question

Hmmmmmmm, Router is a D-Link DI-614+ on a Windows box, I hook up the PB thru a 10/100 Cat5 cable and everything is fine. Disconnect and attempt to go completely wireless, the PB connects to the router/network wirelessly, but internet fails to find the server when I launch the browser. Probably an easy solution, but I've tried several things that just simply don't work. BTW, also using Bellsouth DSL lite and it's a DHCP IP address, not a static one. I did set up the TCP/IP to manually administer the settings, because the one that OSX assigns is really a weird set of numbers. I used similar 192.168.0.* numbers and 255.255.**.** subnet mask and the PB wirelessly says it's connected to the internet, yet when I launch the browser again, it doesn't find the server ?
All suggestions welcomed @ this point, wasted too much of my life trying to get it done @ this point.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

"If the "weird set of numbers" began with 169.254, then it was a "self-assigned" IP address, usually a symptom that the PowerBook failed to receive an address via DHCP from the D-Link."
That's the exact weird number sequences the Apple gets in DHCP mode.
I did do the manual address thing and it didn't work, but I only manually put in the IP, the Subnet and the Router like you indicated. That continued to fail, until I put in the DNS Server also as 192.168.0.1 like you indicated. I figured the router was the same thing as the server address, because it is how all my Windows computers that have no problems connecting to the D-Link and internet are being assigned.
It now shows in the network status that it's connected via airport like it did when I only had the IP, Subnet and Router entries in manually and connected to the router and internet. There's no indicated difference in that regard. But most importantly, now that the DNS Server has the 192.168.0.1 manual entry, when a web browser is launched, the web page loads and there is no error message that the server can't be found. I'm surfing the internet with it.
"BTW I don't understand what you mean by "Router is a D-Link DI-614+ on a Windows box". Is it sitting on top of a Windows box?"
Yes, that is correct, the router is attached to a MS Windows PC, the network was created with Windows and the PC. Everything Windows gets along and plays well with that mini-server. The Apple, when I use it outside of my network works flawlessly out of the box for airport wireless and wireless internet on any other Windows cross platform networks, that's why I was perplexed with this issue. I can take my PB down the hall of my apartment complex and automatic/DHCP mode works perfectly, no manual entries required. That's why I figured something about the PB doesn't like the setup I have for my network, simply because it works every where else on the planet automatically.