Question about Cisco cards and OS compatibility

The Cisco documentation for its relatively new a/b/g client cards 
(AIR-PI21AG-A-K9 and AIR-CB21AG-A-K9) reports only drivers available for 
Windows 2000 and XP: http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2F632B69

Does anyone know if those cards can be made (without highly skilled 
intervention) to work okay with other OSs, e.g., Windows 98 or Linux? If 
yes for Linux, is there a particular kernel that's needed at a minimum?

Thanks for any assistance and advice. We have some Pentium IIs with bare 
hard drives and also some of those cards that have been donated to a 
wireless community network and we're hoping to get them to work together....
   - Steve Ronan
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