Apple has provided a fairly good range of drivers for OS X ( some are not included with the Darwin distribution ), so many non-Apple cards do work on OS X.
How can one know whether a card is supported or not?
Experimentation ;)
One thing to watch out for when trying PCI cards in Power PC hardware ( no matter the OS ) is some cards have firmware that only works on one platform ( x86 ).
How can one know this prior to buying the card?
A Catch-22, eh? Google can help.
The biggest firmware platform racists are graphics and SCSI cards.
Most network cards are platform neutral. I have found that the inexpensive cards sometimes cause headaches that were more easily relieved with a better card than Tylenol.
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