Powermac G4 AGP Airport card (b) not seeing network

I have a friend who has an older Powermac G4 (with AGP graphics card) that has an installed original Airport Card (b only). he would like to connect to his home network (other newer mac computers and HP printer) wirelessly using the Airport card. He is running Mac OS X 10.4.11 on this computer
because he needs access (only on this computer) to Mac OS Classic, and this version of the operating system is the last version to support
Classic.
The troubleshooting I have done has only resulted in "your Airport card must be bad"
Hopefully, there are other options as well, but I have not yet found them. And, being that this computer is so old, it is also not a frequent or new/hot topic.
Any and all help would be most appreciated. My friend is very ill and trying to get this connection working for his wife before he dies, so time is of the essence.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Marc

Hello,
Is the Router they're trying to connect to maybe 802.11n only? Some have a setting to allow 802.11b/g or not.
Is the Router using WPA2? The 802.11b card can only do WEP or WPA, & the very 1st 802.11b card needed a firmware update to even do WPA.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
10.4 instructions...
Is that Interface dragged to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations.
If using Wifi/Airport...
Instead of joining the Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.

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