iMac (G4 flat panel) WiFi questions
 

Getting a 700 MHz G4 iMac onto a wireless network and looking for some opinions/clarifications....

• AIRPORT - this machine ONLY takes the original Airport (802.11b) cards? No hope of using an Airport Extreme card? The original cards are very expensive (due to scarcity?) - any ideas on where to get one cheap?
  
• THIRD PARTY - are there any third party cards that can be installed in the internal airport socket?
  
• USB - This machine has USB 1.1 right? Would a USB wireless dongle be a better option for this machine? Any recommendations in terms of manufacturers or models?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

What you may want to look into is a Wireless Bridge. It's a device that connects to an Ethernet port and then translates the signal (bridges it) to a wireless network.
The advantage is that as far as the Mac is concerned it's connected via plain ethernet (no drivers required as you configure the bridge not the Mac), the disadvantage is that the Bridge requires AC power.
A Netgear WGE101 is an example of a Wireless Bridge but all the manufacturers have them, often under the description of "game adapters) for the X-box / Playstation market.

My sons 700 Mhz G4 iMac has been on our wireless network for over tweleve months using a Netgear WGE101.
Dead simple to set up, totally reliable and seamless to the Mac.

Note to Raven. If you are qoing to quote my posts verbatim perhaps an acknowledgement as to who the original author was would be in order.
Thanks.

Very sorry... No harm intended. I just had your very nice post in a text file for safe keep. I should have linked to the thread instead.
Here is the link:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...thernet+bridge

No problems.
I'm flattered that you have kept one of my answers off line.

Nice clear explanations are rare so I always keep a copy of those. I even save entire threads some times as reference.