Android 1.6 icon help

[DroidRage79]

I picked up a cheap Chinese tablet for my mom to use as an ereader, however I have a few questions about 1.6. I'm used to Android 2.1 from my DroidX and there's an icon at the top of this thing I've never seen before. I'm having trouble getting it to connect to WiFi (my DX is connecting fine) so I'm thinking maybe this icon has something to do with it. It looks like a square box with an exclamation point to the right of it.

 

[DigitalFrog#AC]

Network Icon

I had that on my 7" chinese MID eBook (reader) running 1.6. As soon as I logged into our wireless network (with password) and it was happily connecting to the internet that icon changed to a signal strength icon.

Hope that helps.
Beth