Getting online wirelessly without Airport Extreme

I recently acquired a G5 Power PC which is having a lot of trouble connecting wirelessly. I tried installing an airport extreme card and although the machine knew it was there, it couldn’t locate any networks despite there being 3 very strong ones in range. From talking to a few people I believe my airport slot is faulty in some way.
None the less I still want to get online, due to the computers location I can’t plug her in to a connection. Does anyone know of any USB WiFi devices that are compatible with Power PCs & Leopard that are available in the UK?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21525?viewlocale=en_US
And then use the external, t-shape, antenna! It should pickup any signal.
You can by a lot of cards, make sure the ralink chipset is on it since this chipset is supported by mac os x by downloading the driver from ralink.com.
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