I have an airport problem

[Chutch74]

Hi and thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Here is the situation:

I moved in with family who have a PC and router (Netgear) through charter (cable provider).

However I've had an imac g3 450MHz for the past 8 years and it still works fine..except..

The OS is 10.4, and I seem to have a problem connecting to internet with wireless. Apparently somehow the original airport software was deleted. I did purchase an airport card and adapter and successfully installed that.

However my problem is getting airport software back on my Imac. I tried installing Airport 3.1 however my computer insists its already installed so it won't install the airport software. But a search confirms that there is no airport any longer on my Imac.

In any case, I'm not able to get on the internet.

Please help.

 

[Hellhammer]

Reinstalling Tiger could help

 

[Chutch74]

Reinstalling Tiger could help

Thanks for the suggestion.

I do have internet now, and while I did take your suggestion and reinstall Tiger, apparently the problem was my computer just didn't want to recognize the Airport card w/adaptor even though I'm positive I put it in right. So I guess I had a bad airport card or something.

Anyway, what I did do was hook up a USB netgear wireless device that my family used for their PC before, and while I didn't think it would work, doing some research I found I could use it, all I needed was a certain driver.

So I have internet now. Thanks for the suggestion, however.