Can I join this new older mac in my home wireless network?  Please help!

I bought an iMac333 computer for my daughter. On the Apple systme profiler page, it says my system is 9.2.1 US, and the machine ID is 406 Processor info is PowerPC G3. Anyway, I am so impressed with this little machine already. I have only ever worked with my pc, and I run windows xp. I am trying to find out if I can hook up her computer to use the internet wirelessly. I have verizon dsl, and we use MSN on our home computer. We have a Belkin Wireless G Router, and a Belkin Wireless G USB network adapter. Will we need all new hardware to hook her up? When I put in the install disk for the Belkin adapter, the iMac can't open it. I was up all night trying to figure it out, but I can't. Thanks if you can help me

congratulations on getting your iMac. Its a great little machine. You can get it onto a wireless network, but you're going to need a different piece of equipment. USB adaptors are problematic because they require drivers, and they just weren't made for OS 9 (there are few drivers for OS X for these types of devices, and they can be flaky). The drivers that would have come with that device would be windows only.
So instead, what I recommend is an ethernet based adaptor. Ethernet adpators don't require drivers, and oeprate completely independently of the OS, so they are a far superior choice, though a bit more expensive. I use a linksys wet11 and it works great. linksys also make the WET54 for G networks (the wett11 will also work on a G network, no problem). belking, dlink and others make similar devices, as does macsense.com (whose is interesting because it uses USb for power, whereas the others use a separte power outlet)

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