HP 3970 scanner on Fedora Core 2?

["Steven P. Ulrick" <ulrick2 faith4miracle org>]

Hello, Everyone :)
I have a few questions relating to the subject line of this message. 
Before I get into them, I searched the fedora-list archives for HP 3970,
but I found nothing useful.

1. Will the HP 3970 work with Fedora Core 2 at all?
2. If it will work, but not with full functionality, what functionality
would it lack?
3. If the HP 3970 will not work with Fedora Core 2 at all, what scanner
would you reccomend at the HP 3970's price range - approximately $100
USD.  USB 2 would be nice, but not required.

Thank you in advance for your help :)
Steven P. Ulrick