"wine maybe" lol, I am still cracking up about that comment, thanks for the chuckle.
Here is the manufactures site:
http://www.saitek.com/uk/down/drivers.php
It looks like they only have drivers/support for xp and windows 7 up there. The only option I see is if one of the third party macro application detect the dead keys and will allow you to assign macro's to them. The plus side is most of them have a trial period.