Wireless PC card adapter

Hello,
my PB G4 stopped working and Apple said it's the logic board which has problems with the Airport card. Since replacing the logic board was far too expensive for a machine 5 years old, they gave me back the PB w/o the wireless card.
So I started to look for a PCMCIA wireless card. It's a nightmare. The Rome Apple store said they haven't any, and told me to buy a D-link somewhere else. I bought one, the 645n, which wasn't of any use, no way to find a driver for Mac. I read somewhere that the D-link DWL-G650 is Apple compatible, and it is, although with a third party driver (Orangeware) which by the way doesn't support WPA encryption, which I need.
I can't believe it's so difficult to make a PC-Card wireless adapter work on a PB.
If anyone has some suggestions, they're welcome,
thanks,
Francesco

Hi, Francesco. I don't know whether the following cards are available in Italy, but they all work just as easily in Powerbooks as the Apple cards do, and they give greater range:
http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/wirelesscards/11g_11bcards/11gPCCard.php
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_extreme.html
http://www.macsense.com/product/networking/wpe800.html

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