Airport connection between 2 Macs

I have an iMac intel with OS 10.4.11 and a G4 Power Mac with OS 10.4.3 (need to upgrade) and I would like to network with airport. I have tried everything that I can find but with no success. Can anyone tell me in easy to follow steps how to make this work. I use airport on either/both of my Macs to connect to the internet through a router connected to PCs and have no direct connection to that router.

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