Mac Mini PPC and Usb wifi dongle?

So I have a ppc mac mini and I purchased a wifi dongle for it. (not the Belkin one)
I have drivers for it that appear to be correct, everything installs fine.
However when I go to network to configure the device there is no option to choose usb as a network interface. The only options are firewire, or internal modem.
I'm sure this has been addressed but I've searched and search.

Sorry wow been a long time since I was here, but things have progressed ... somewhat.
Turns out there were specific drivers that I was not in possession of. The manufacturer supplied them and I thought all was good.
Turns out I'm having another problem now that it took some time to figure out ...
The dongle works for a time, but seems to get booted from my router or something after going to sleep or rebooting.
The weird thing is that the dongle software itself and the mac os think its connected, it shows an IP address that isn't on my network.
If I reboot the router and then reset my IP on the mac mini it will work until it goes to sleep or reboots.
I updated my Linksys WRT54G to DDWRT to see if that would fix things but even with new firmware and reset settings only this mac is affected by this problem. Also the dongle doesn't do it on any other computer.
So its mac mini/dongle/router specific ...
thanks again for all the suggestions and help

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