Connecting to an external modem

When I first purchased my PowerMac G4 back in March 2003, the first mac I ever bought, it was to add to my ethernet network and came without an airport card. Under the operating system it came with (OS X something) I manually configured an external modem to connect to the internet for systems up grads etc. Later, I bought an airport card when my network went wireless, but due to antenna problems it never worked satisfactorily. Consequently, some several O/S upgrades later, I now want to connect the G4 to my wireless modem, for internet and network access via an ethernet cable. However I can no longer find where I have to configure the modem? Can anyone please advise.

Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106653
The Interface that connects to the Internet (Ethernet), needs to be drug to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations and checked ON.

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All I can say is Macintosh 2008 is JUST LIKE Windoze 98 cough Intel.
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gee Apple, are you hiring?
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