WLAN USB Adaptor & Internt connection problem on iBook G3 Mac OS X 10.2

Hi everyone - I hope someone may be able to help me!
I have an old iBook which I haven't used for over a year and am not particularly computer savvy anyway. I've booted it up again to find the driver for my ASUS WL-167g adapter was missing... can't remember why now, but found the driver online and reinstalled it successfully. It picks up the network at home fine, shows good signal strength and yet when I open internet explorer I get "specified server cannot be found".
In Network I'm at a loss as to what means what let alone the settings that it should be on! Can anyone talk me through what settings should be on in the network pane? In previous homes I've never had any issues. Should also note that I live in shared accomodation and the router is in someone else's room, so access to it is limited!
Thanks in advance for your advice.

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Secondly, do you know if the router is using any kind of encryption? If you are and the key is not set on the wireless card, you will not be able to get on the internet without setting it.
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