My mac ibook 800 won't let me conect to a newer wifi modem

my grandpa gave an ibook 800 laptop and i tryed to connect it to my wifi modem but it keeps saying "there was an error connecting to" and then the network name
dont bother answering this question whith "are you shore the password is right" because i know it is i have memorized it by heart and i have had apple products for about 2 years so i know apple fairly well but why whont the darn laptop connect to my wifi!!!!!
(and if your wondering i am righting this from my other laptop which is win7pro)

Hello,
iBook 800Mhz don't gives us much to go on here. is this a G3 or a G4 model of iBook?
That will make a real difference in what type of wifi security you can connect to. The G3 models have an Airport card, while the G4 have Airport Extreme cards fitted.
If it's a G3 the likelihood is, your trying to connect to a wifi that has a security encryption of WPA2 and it wont work. It could only connect to WEP or WPA. You can test this by simply turning off the security encryption and your find it will connect fine.
If it's a G4 then it could connect to WPA/WPA2 encryption. This could indicate another software related problem or an IP address allocation problem from the router.
Let us know what model of iBook you have and we will be sure to give you further advise.

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