Airport card + bluetooth no longer found after Tiger reinstall on G5 imac

hi guys, i was wondering if anyone could help me one this one...
i've just bought a second-hand 20" G5 imac (2GHz PPC), running Tiger 10.4.11 off a good friend.
the airport card was running fine until a full reinstall was done, now Tiger is claiming it doesnt exist, along with no bluetooth.
has anyone encountered this before, or know of any way around???
thanks for any help you can offer!

Just guessing it sounds like may have done a reinstall from a retail Tiger DVD rather than the Software Restore disc the G5 iMac may have originally shipped with.
The problem is that the Tiger retail disc might not contain the AirPort and Bluetooth drivers necessary for the hardware in your iMac.
If that's the case, the solution would be to do a clean install of Tiger from the Software Restore disc that originally shipped with the iMac.

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