Wifi with LM Technologies USB adapter

The airport card on my Mac Mini failed (reception flickers and can't connect when others can easily) so rather than wait 4 weeks without a computer for a repair I bought an LM Technologies LM006 USB adapter thinking it was a cheap and cheerful workaround. I've installed the Realtek WLAN Client utility but it doesn't open just bounces once in the dock then gives up.
Not sure if the problem is that the USB isn't designed for a computer that already has an (albiet failed) airport card?
Tried a few different settings, airport turned off, tried ethernet settings in network system prefs because I read somewhere it might be seen as an ethernet connection but I can't see any evidence anywhere, including system profiler, that the USB had been recognised at all.
Any help much appreciated

Thanks for that.
Sure I did the exact same thing this morning but maybe I pulled the ethernet able as well or something. Anyway this time the WLAN client utility bounced into life straight away and (a first) there was a green light on the usb adapter. After a few bits of fiddling around I'm online, playing airtunes and the ethernet cable is back in the cable drawer.
Hurrah!!

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