My roommate did for a while. He wanted his Powerbook to have wireless access
to both a networked PC and the internet.
Initially he plugged the Airport into a Linksys router just like the PC was
plugged in. The cable modem was plugged into the WAN port of the Linksys
router. Trouble was he couldn't figure out how to get clearance to transfer
files between the Mac and PC, so he hooked the modem directly into the
Airport WAN port and plugged the other PC into the only other open LAN port
on the Airport.
He said it worked for a while but then stopped at some point, so I put the
network back to the original configuration I mentioned before with the
Airport connected as a bridge (I think that's the term for the connection
type). I wanted to have more ports available in case I hardwired a
Playstation 2 modem into the network, and it made me feel better to be able
to access the router settings through a PC web page (I wasn't thrilled to
have to learn to configure the Airport with a Powerbook).
I did end up getting the PS2 connected to the network wirelessly through the
Airport, the trick ended up being to configure WEP security on the Airport
and write down the coded key and NOT the passphrase. From there the Linksys
wireless adpater for the PS2 could be configured using that code. The tricky
part was getting voice communication to work in SOCOM 2. I ended up setting
the Airport's port on the Linksys router as a DMZ to allow voice
communication to go back and forth.
From what I understand the Airport can work with wireless cards in PCs, it
all comes down the the protocol (802.11b) and not so much the "platform".
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