Adding a Lucent airport card...but need a slightly longer cable to make it

Not wishing to pay the premium prices now being fetched for the original airport card i bought Lucent Gold card from EBAY. It is installed in the computer now and without having to add any drivers my imac say it and added it at startup and now airport shows up in my network ports and is turned on. The only thing holding me back is that the card ias about an inch longer than the airport card making a connection to the internal antenna impossible. I need about another inch or two. I think I culd crack open the imac and find that there is plenty of slack...but I would rather NOT do that just yet. Does anyone know if there isa pigtail available to extend the imac internal wireless cable?
Thanks!!

Hey tm311,
That's interesting that it works without an antenna.
A common problem with the Airport card is not fully
seating the antenna. I'm impressed that you had
another antenna just laying around the house!
Clint
I did not have one laying around...in fact this whole wireless thing is kind of new to me. I ordered this one online and it is coming today. I let you know if it improves the reception enough to make it worthwhile to install
http://sharperconcepts.zoovy.com/product/YSC-RE05E-MC

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