Can't get Airport to work on PowerMac G4-533, yet it's recognized...

I have a PowerMac G4-533 machine with 256 Mb ram. I've tried installing an Airport card into the machine and cannot locate any wireless networks with Airport turned on. I even tried swapping Airport cards between this machine and my G3-600, and find that the problem is not with the Airport card (newly acquired card works great in the G3). Other interesting tidbit is that when I do an "About this machine", I can select the networking line and see the MAC address of the Airport card currently plugged in, along with being told it's IEEE80211, port en1, in DHCP mode, Auto, Node, 1 (rest of info on this port). Yet when I run the network diagnostics, Airport is not an active port even though it is turned on.
Any thoughts? Could I have a bad system? I bought this from a reseller and have a few days left.
There's no problem with running a rather long ethernet cable temporarily, but I don't want to go this way.

Found out what the problem was -- the antenna connector going to the airport card was
"crushed". The service tech where I got the G4 found the problem, used some tools and
reshaped the connector back to normal. I am now able to find my own wireless net (and the
others in the neighborhood).
-Bob

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