New Airport card, no service...Help

I just bought an airport card for my iMac G4, I have wireless internet and two other macs, they work perfectly with their airport cards. I put my airport card in and nothing, keeps saying there was an error connecting to airport network, ive called my internet provider, apple, and the router supplier. None helped whatsoever, I even lost 50 dollars to apple for no help HA. It must be my computer because ive used a working airport card from my macbook and it still did not give me signal, if anyone could throw me some advice, or something im doing wrong or not doing, or some software that i need, I would be very grateful. Thank You.
- The knight of ewigkeit

hey there Knight & welcome to discussions,
i had this issue w/ a friend's Mac & the problem was pilot error-- the card wasn't snapped in tight to the cable. as soon as i did that the Mac immediately found my network & asked to join. i am assuming you have the correct card-an Airport Extreme made for this computer, it should be wireless b/g compatible, not the original Airport Card. see this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26237. step by step instruction w/ pix. how i installed Airport Extreme card in a 20" iMac G4.
good luck.

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