Using iMac G4 with airport

I have an imac g4 - the kind that has the display sitting on top of the dome-shaped hard drive. I am finally getting an airport base station and switching my other two laptops over to wireless. Do I need a card or something to get my imac (which I think did not ship with wireless capability) to work with the airport? Thanks.
imac G4 desktop Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Personally I use a 3rd Party (Belkin) Wireless Router (rather than Apple's Base Station) and I use a Ethernet cable (which was bundled with my router (but they cost only about £2)) to connect to it rather than an Airport connection.So if you are able to locate the base station next to/near the iMac then you could save yourself the cost of an Airport card (which especially for an Original Airport card is significant).
This isn't possible if you get the Airport Express as it doesn't have a LAN port.
Depending on your needs you could save quite a few $$$ by looking at the non-Apple option.
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