PowerMac G4 With Belkin Wireless Card

I recently moved my G4 (MDD) to the basement where I do not have wiring for the network. I have a belkin wireless pci card that I was not using so I thought I'd try to install it in the G4. How should I go about doing this. Thanks
Jon

If the Belkin card uses the Broadcomm chipset it will just work, otherwise confirm with Belkin that they supply Mac drivers.
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