Airport card with G4 - not connecting

I have an Airport Extreme base station connected to my home Windows computer. It appears to be set up fine and broadcasting fine. I get a good signal on my laptop MacBookPRo. I just installed a Airport Card in my older G4 733MHZ PowerPC. I believe it is installed right. The system profiler recognizes it. The base station is upstairs at my house, the G4 downstairs. I am not getting a signal to the G4. The laptop is getting a signal sitting right next to it. Distance is only about 20yards between base station and computer although it is downstairs. Seems to be something wrong with Card or the cards ability to read a signal compared to the built in card in the MACBOOK PRO. I have moved the base station as close as I can. Not sure why one would get the signal and not the other. Any ideas.

Your Power Mac G4 733 MHz requires the original 802.11b AirPort card. This card's maximum wireless speed is theoretically 11 Mbps.
There are two reasons why the card may not be receiving a signal:
(1) The network is configured to operate at 5 GHz or 802.11n only. You would need to ensure that your AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) is configured to operate in an 802.11b compatible mode for the Power Mac G4 733 MHz to be able to see and connect to the wireless network.
(2) The antenna wire inside the Power Mac G4 733 MHz is not connected to the AirPort card. You would need to find and attach this wire to the card.

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