Mysterious PCI ethernet card

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Mysterious PCI ethernet card

Hey everyone

I just got a 5500 with a mystery PCI NIC in it. The NIC has (rather, had) a sticker saying "MacOS" with the MacOS smiley logo fellow over the top of a Realtek 8029AS chip. The board has no manufacturer marking on it, besides "PCI Ether card".

I can't seem to find any mention of a manufacturer besides a German company that claims their card has the 8029AS chip but the driver they supply is definitley for the 8139 (even hex edited it to accept the 8029AS as suggested in the readme :P)

Mac OS 8.6 doesn't recognise it, and a driver would be nice Blum 3 Apparently the chip emulates an NE2000 but I can't even find a nice generic NE2000 driver for 8.6

Anyone?

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Drivers for Realtek chipsets are at www.realtek.com.tw. However, they do not list an 8029 driver for MacOS, but do list an 8139 driver for 9 and X.

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well, yes...

I have tried that driver, with and without hex editing it as per the included instructions, and it definitley doesn't work Blum 3 Thanks anyways.

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aha!

It's a TFL Lan Inc. card, certified by Novell

http://developer.novell.com/yes/38317.htm

However, TFL Lan Inc.'s website has been taken over by a search engine spammer, and I can't find a mirror of their drivers anywhere Sad

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