Installation of wireless pci network card

In all the research I have gone through in order to decide what wireless network card I would use, I keep seeing from time to time a reference to which mac operating system version should be in place prior to installation of card. This I found was particularly for NIC(PCI cards) that had 802.11B,G
protocol. There was a caution to use mac osx version 10? is this correct (am I reading this correctly?)or can These NIC(PCI Cards) still run correctly with any version of mac osx?
apple g4 powermac G4 Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Are you really using 10.0.X?
I remember having about zero success with networking anything with 10.0.X, ethernet or wireless.
Yeah, I think you'll have variable results depending on which version of OS X you're running.
Back to subject:
I just bought a Buffalo WCI2-PCI-G54S at BestBuy tonight for $39.99
I have 10.3.9 on a G4 466Mhz machine.
Put it in a PCI slot, attached the antenna and restarted.
OS X 10.3.9 found it pretty quickly and auto-configured the Network settings for; I was not expecting this and am still really impressed. I wtched my network status indicator as it turned GREEN.
All I had to do was turn-on Airport at the top of my screen and select my Base Station, that was it!
Works great. Not sure if I can print to my Old Trusty Laserwriter since it needs AppleTalk, but we'll see.
By the way; this is a low-profile(half-height) PCI card and using a BroadCom Chip set.
Good Luck!
G4 Desktop, G4 iMac, & G3 iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9) Graphite ABS

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