Well..unforntunately no one provided any sort of insight on my problem, but...
I am typing this response via Mozilla Firebird on RedHat 8.0 using my Cisco 350 MiniPCI wireless connection. I used the GPL driver that is being developed by Benjamin Reed and Javier Achirica, and the directions on Fabrice Bellet's website...
http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt
I had to make some adjustments to mic.c and airo_mpi.c to get the thing to compile, but after that, it was smooth sailing. By the way, I did not recompile the entire kernel, only the airo_mpi.c driver. Things seem to be working well so far.
Post any questions and I will try to help.