Help with wireless connection

Hi all,
I bought a Power Mac G4 AGP graphics in a yard sale for my kids. It works great but I don't know how to connect it to the internet. It has a 400Mhz processor and 896 SDRAM. The operating system is OSX 10.4.11.
I have another computer (PC Sony) on the second floor with a Linksys 2.4 Ghz router for a wireless network at home. I use a laptop and Ipod touch with this network and it works well.
The question is: What type of card or device I need to buy to connect it to my home wireless network. I have been reading about "Air Ports" but its pretty confusing and I don't want to buy the wrong thing. Also, since it's an old computer, I don't know if the configuration will affect the speed of navigation (I have a Verizon DSL line at home).
Thanks for any advise.
Felipe

Hi Felipe and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
Well what japanamac and motsteve are talking about are PCI adapters for the faster 802.11g Airport Extreme cards.
This is the more conventional solution:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apple/M7600LLE/
If you open up your G4 with the door facing you it mounts the bracket you see in the upper left front. Like most of these it goes in upside down, thru the bracket and plugs into the socket you see there. The antenna is usually stored in that area also.
Here's the Apple site:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58536
That adapter in #5 is for a G3 iMac and doesn't have anything to do with that we're about here.
Richard

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