How do I get my mac on thie internet?

I have a Preforma 6300CD Power PC, I also have a linksys wireless router, and a netgear 8 port gigabit switch. I have other computers on this network primarily linux and windows pc's. How do I get my mac to connect to the internet over tcp/ip connection? If I need an apple talk server; where can I get one that will run on a windows/linux pc that would share its internet connection with my mac? Im really lost here, and I would really love it if someone could tell me what i need to do, and tell me how to do some file sharing. Im sure once I can figure out how to get this mac on the net I probably wont have a problem with the file sharing.. One more thing I forgot to mention I don't know if it is important or not. My mac is running mac os 8 (do i need to upgrade this opperating system to reach my goal? I can only upgrade to system 9.1, and if that is the case will 9.1 do the job?).

Hi Shrek
You will first need an ethernet Card for your 6300,LC or Comm, you can get them cheap on ebay.
You can use internet configuration assistant should be within 8.0 to get to internet.
Connecting to PC: You can use a Farallon iPrint Ethernet -adapter to connect to Ethernet. You can use MacPCLan software:
http://ca.miramar.com/Support/evaluation.html
Quoted(URL lost)"Somewhere in this forum is a guide to setup the appletalk protocol on a windows xp machine, by gathering files from Windows 2000"
Some more:
http://www.apple.com/business/mac_pc/tutorials.html
http://macwindows.com/tutorial.html#networking
http://www.everythingcomputers.com/home_network.htm
http://www.kan.org/networking/quicknet.html
http://macwindows.com/diskfile.html#UsingFloppies
From John Strung:
http://www.joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/pcfilesharing.html
http://www.joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/wxpfs.html
http://www.joelshoemaker.com/computer/homelan.html
I did not connect MAC to XP until now.

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