Connecting iMac G5 to PowerMac G4?

Hi if anyone can help on this, it would be great.
I have a intel based version iMac g5 and just bought a G4 (not sure why, ebay etc)
I know you can use the PowerMac G5 as a node so you can use its processor power for certain tasks (eg music production in Logic).
But can you do it with the G4 PowerMac? if so how?
kind regards.
wilson

No offense taken. I was too sleepy when I wrote that.
There's a Cat5e outlet in my living room. AppleTV doesn't recognize it. It's as if it's not plugged in at all, and defaults to wireless connection telling me I need to insert an ethernet cable to use ethernet. Until 2 weeks ago it worked fine. I was on vacation and so did nothing myself to alter the setup. There were no power outages either.
I tested the patch cable (ATV-wall) and then the patch cable by the router (patch bay-gigabit switch) by replacing them one at at time. No change.
I tested the setup as a whole by connecting an iBook and an iMac G4, both with Airport switched off. The iBook works fine. The iMac does not. (In my first post I said that fast ethernet worked but gigabit ethernet did not, but I've just realized that the iMac is not gigabit ethernet.)
The gigabit switch by the router has link indicator LEDs: 1 light for a fast ethernet connection, 2 for gigabit ethernet, 0 for no connection. With the iBook there's 1 LED, with the ATV there is 0.
Finally, the ATV itself is definitely not broken. I verified this by connecting it to my bedroom TV with another outlet. It worked fine.
I suppose there's a problem with the network cables or hardware, but these odd inconsistencies are confusing me and I don't know where or how to start troubleshooting.

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