Make a Powerbook a wireless access point

Is it possible to make my Powerbook G4 act as if it were a wireless access point? I can see where I can create my own network, which I've done, I have a wireless PC laptop which will connect to my mac as it see's the wireless broadcast. However, the PC is unable to go out to the internet on the connection it has made to my Powerbook.
Why do you ask would I want to do that? Sometimes I'm at a location which has one ethernet port and I would like to share that connection with others so I plug in my Mac and want my Mac to act as if it were an access point. I'm not sure of the parameters of what to setup on the PC side as far as gateway and so on and it doesn't automatically configure I assume because my MAC isn't a DHCP server so it isn't serving up what the PC needs.
Any ideas?

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the prompt reply, this is the correct answer but I was aware of the WPA2/AES requirement to enable the higher rates that 802.11n supports. The question was really around whether the 3602 + 802.11ac module was capable of bridging as I found the passage stipulating that the models that supoport bridging are the 1040, 1140 and 1250 series. The problem is I do not have access to this device I was asked the question directly and wanted to find a definitive response.
Hi Richard,
Thanks to you too for the reply, I'm aware the ac module is modular (no external connections) again I have no information around its location or distance. as you have correctly stated usually you'd use some kind of external antenna: patch, yagi, directional of some kind!
I seem to remember that the IOS for the 3600 was a skinny version purely for site surveying but this may have changed. I have been sent the 'show tech' and as Steve has pointed out it had only been configured for wpa tkip, I think the guys installing it must have just tried the express set up via the GUI!!!!
I'll update this post when I get the final results back, the distance it is spanning and the speed that it states it is connected at
Kind regards
Rockford

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