Sharing access to internet

My wife and I each have a Mac Book Pro, running Leopard. We have a Verizon card inserted in one of the macs which is then hoooked up to the internet. How do we get the second mac to "share" in this internet connection?
Computer #1 is hooked up to net. I see that I am using the airport to send out signal. I pick up the signal on computer #2 which clearly identifies computer #1 on the airport, and connects to that source. However, Computer #2 still can't click on safari and get on the net. Nothing happens.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Don

You'd might have better luck asking this in the hardware/notebook area.
I have six wireless devices on my network but I do this with a wireless router and don't use
any kind of repeater.
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