What options for making a mac mini wireless?

Is the oinly way of doing this getting an airport card installed into the mac mini? is there any usb or thernet style wireless device that would allow the mac mini to access out wifi adsl router?
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tommy banana

Tommy Banana,
It would be helpful to know what type of wireless system you are running now that you want the Mac Mini to join.
Do you have an Airport Extreme Base Station?
or may an Airport Express Base Station?
If you have either of the above, then you could make just about any computer join your network by adding another Airport Express Base Station and have it joining the network in WDS mode. The WDS mode will allow an ethernet connection between the Mac Mini and the Airport Express Base Station thus giving you a wireless connection to your network so to speak. No need for an internal wireless card which isn't easy to add on the Mac Mini without splitting the case.
Here are instructions for setting up Airport Base Stations in WDS mode.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454
You Mac Mini would be hooked up like the Remote Base Station in the bottom of the photo. The photo shows an Extreme but the Express will do the same.

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