No Airport found?

Just got a piggyback wireless card for my PowerPC G5 (late 2005 model) Plugged it in and started the computer up. Went in to Internet Connect and there is no airport...went into about this mac under more info and clicked on the airport card tab and there was no info under there either. Did i get a corrupt piece or do I need to install some software before it will work? This is the first time an airport card has been installed on the computer. Any thoughts are GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Thanks~

Let's try this...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, when complete trash these files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<12 digit number>.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkConfig.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist
Reboot.

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