Airport Base Station without the airport card

I want to know if an airport base station (snow) will operate as a wired ethernet router if it no longer has an internal airport card.
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

ooppps..
WPA2-PSK
that is the encryption in my router,there is another way without change any security?

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