Airport with Netgear?

Will the airport card connect with a 54mb netgear router? Or can i use my netgear dongle on my mac ibook g3? The dongle is a WG111 btw. If not what can the airport card connect to?
Thanks

Let me see if I can help sort this out.
Any Apple computer that is equiped with either Airport Card or Airport Extreme Card can connect to any wireless Network.
There are of course issues with the type of Network and Confiquration issues as well but they will work.
Next when using the term Airport be careful to understand we sometimes have a problem understanding do you mean
Airport Card (802.11b)
Airport Extreme Card (802.11g)
Airport Snow Base (802.11b)
Airport Extreme Base (802.11 b or g)
Airport Express Base ( 802.11 b or g)
802.11b (also referred to as 802.11 High Rate or Wi-Fi) -- an extension to 802.11 that applies to wireless LANS and provides 11 Mbps transmission (with a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b uses only DSSS. 802.11b was a 1999 ratification to the original 802.11 standard, allowing wireless functionality comparable to Ethernet.
802.11g -- applies to wireless LANs and provides 20+ Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band.
Also remember there are literaly 100s of different Routers on the market and many are ETHERNET ONLY while others are either ETHERNET or WIRELESS. So you must also be carefull to select the correct router for the type of network you wish to create.
Cheers Don

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