Help please ; which G-based PCI card will work on MDD?

Hi there,
Based on what I've learned from this forum, the BroadComm chipset is needed in wireless PCI cards if these are to work on our Macs (MDDs). However, finding if this chipset is the one has proven to be at best, an exercise in futility.
NewEgg has the following card on sale (Rosewill 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card, model no. RNX-G300LX, for $13.99. Coupon code "EMCBBBJCC" chops it to $8.99. With free shipping!). The technical specs claim that the card works under OS 10.3,10.4,10.5.
Has anyone had positive experiences with this brand (or any other for that matter)? I do want to add a G-type PCI card but can't figure out which one will work.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Jacobo

From the product photos on Rosewill's site it looks like that card uses an RALink chipset (the RA 2651T, I think). RALink has Mac drivers for its wireless chipsets from 10.3-10.4 on its website here:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html
Those drivers should allow you to use that card on your Mac in OS X - since it doesn't use a Broadcom chipset, it wouldn't work in OS 9. I don't know how well they work (the card I'm using in my Sawtooth now is a RT-Link card) but I know Linksys currently uses RALink chipsets in their 802.11b/g PCI cards (WMP54G v4.1) and people have used RALink's posted drivers to use those cards in their Macs.
AFAIK, no currently shipping wireless PCI cards use Broadcom chipsets.

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