Which Airport card for a Power Mac G5 Quad Core?

i think it's a late 2005 model (11,2). having difficulty finding the right airport card to connect to my wireless broadband network at home. bought a wireless USB adapter but this won't work. any ideas would be hugely appreciated! thanks.

how easy are these things to install?
No so much easy, or hard, just delicate.
These instructions are originally in German, but with translation, you should be able to install it:
Install Airport/BT DC G5
Original link:
http://www.macuser.de/forum/showthread.php?t=143115

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I have a power Mac G5 (1.8 GHZ 512 MB 160 GB) Serial Number XB40**QES. I want to buy an airport extreme card and found here on apple.com that the airport card I need is the M8881LL/A. But everyones at every store I´ve been keep telling me that a I need a special card for it, because the regular card just won´t fit the slot. Is this true?
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Message was edited by: Garry Westwell

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