... ever needed to use another wireless adapter with your Mac?

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We just got a Apple iMac G5 with no Airport Extreme Card in it. Dave has a tiny USB Wireless Card, it's a Buffalo WLI-UC-GN. He told me that he wasn't sure if the USB wireless card would work at all. First thing I did was grab my MacBook to go find drivers on the Buffalo website. They only had drivers for Windows. So my next step was to do a bit of research because I knew it had to work. I did a google search for Mac drivers. Looked at a couple of websites and found a forum that had the answer http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=193751. I was directed to go to the ralink site http://www.ralinktech.com/. I was a little confused at which UBS driver to download but the forum posted which file to download. After the download finished I popped in my 2gb flash drive and copied the file over. I plugged in my flash drive and installed the driver. I used the ralink software to connect to our wireless at home and went to the system preferences, network to make sure I was getting an IP address. It works and works very well.