Sharing internet connection with a PC

Hi, I have a macbook with the latest OS X. I want to know if it is possible to share my PC's internet connection with my laptop, either through wifi, bluetooth, or firewire. I am running XP on the PC. I will not have a wireless network up, and I would like to have internet on both my mac and my pc. Is there a device that i can hook into my PC to broadcast a wifi network. It doesnt have to have a large range, I'll be using my laptop close to my desktop.
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Really cool feature alert. Under System Preferences-->Sharing you can have your Mac share to any computer connected via Wi-fi, Firewire, or Ethernet. Whichever adapters are not used for the Internet connection are available.
It saved me lots of grief setting up some stubborn Windows boxen that only loaded the firewire driver as the OS was setup.

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