Airport antenna and card

I use my Mac Pro's ethernet port right now for connecting to the internet, but I am moving soon and at the new place, it might be easiest to connect to my wireless router than to run a cable. I have an older airport card that worked in my Quad 2.5 G5 PPC, will this work on a Mac Pro 2x2 Dual Core Intel Xeon?
Also, I need to get an antenna, are the intel antennas different from the original ones? or can i use any that I find on eBay?
Thanks.

Nevermind, I just called the Apple store and realized the Mac Pro's don't even have an antenna port and the airport card is not "user installable".

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