Trying to link with PC wireless router

Hi I am newbie to the mac world but picked up a G3 relatively inexpensive (to test before going for a new mac) and I have installed an airport card into it with the adapter and I show that the airport card is working but it is not detecting my wireless router that my other 2 windows pcs are on. It is a Linksys wtr54gs that is wired with ethernet to my desktop pc and wireless to my dell laptop. I am really wanting to get this other pc up and running by this weekend so the kids can use it for back to school which starts next week. It displays that it is sending out a signal but it is not picking up my router. The smae spot in my kitchen where the iMac is my dell laptop gets a perfect signal so it is not that it cant detect there. Someone please help me!!!!!

...as on my dell laptop when i look to the connection it tells me it is hooked to my network called linksystwo
That is no indication of whether the wireless router is broadcasting the network name or not. To connect, the PC must know the name. The PC displays the name of the network regardless of if this feature is enabled or not on the router.

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