WiFi/Ethernet network setup

Im not much of a techie and I cant find a tutorial anywhere that teachers you how to go about setting up networking with Mac..
I have one MacBook with Tiger (10.4.11), and a Mac Mini with Leopard (10.5.2), the MacBook connects to the internet wirelessly and the Mac Mini connects via Ethernet.
Can someone point me to a tutorial and prove me wrong, or atleast make a short setup guide?
Thankyou very much in advance!

This may sound annoying...but since both of them are on the internet, you already have networking set up.
Which in turn implies: what is it you want to do with networking that you can't do? I'm suggesting that you may already have your networking, but don't know how to use it to do something that you want to do.
And, how are the two computers connected to the internet? (In more detail than just one is wired and the other is wireless.) Since one of them is wireless, there must be a wireless base station somewhere. What kind of device does the wired one connect to? A cable or DSL modem in your home? Or is the wireless base station also the device you connect the wired one to?
And when you say they're both connected to the internet, is that both at home, or the wired one at home, but the wireless one only when you go out to, say, Starbucks and use their wireless access point?

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