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PCI Fast Ethernet Card
Posted by: Iamanamma on 2020-07-09 01:18:05 Hey All: Is this worth fixing? The socket has broken loose from its solder. It did work until that happened.
Posted by: Franklinstein on 2020-07-09 20:47:56 They're good cards. AFAIK they don't work with OS 9 but are good under OS X. If all you need to do is resolder it's worth the 5-10 minutes or so of effort.
Posted by: Iamanamma on 2020-07-10 02:33:12 They're good cards. AFAIK they don't work with OS 9 but are good under OS X. If all you need to do is resolder it's worth the 5-10 minutes or so of effort. It came out of a G4 running both os 9 and OS X. Thanks. I don't solder, but I know several people who do.
Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2020-07-10 04:12:22 If its a Realtek based card, it should have MacOS 9 drivers in addition to OS X.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2020-07-12 15:44:47 If its a Realtek based card, it should have MacOS 9 drivers in addition to OS X. Yes, especially if it's an RTL8139 (which has got to be one of the most common NIC chipsets on the planet, and it has driver support to match; in my experience, it seems to have drivers for just about every version of Windows, DOS, and Mac OS 8.6 and up, plus numerous linuxes/unixes/BSDs and I think even OS/2). c
Posted by: Coloruser on 2023-01-12 12:14:17 Just saw a RTL8139C based 10/100 card on eBay today. I know that Realtek 8139 based cards work in Mac OS. However, this card looks different than others I have found upon research, Any idea whether this type would run with classic OS?
Posted by: treellama on 2023-01-12 13:55:31 I have a couple just like that. Likely because they worked in macs? But it's been so long, I don't remember. I can throw one in a Mac and see if it shows up.
Posted by: treellama on 2023-01-12 18:43:46 Mine has a slightly different layout but the same chips. Works fine in a B&W G3 in Mac OS 9.1 with the #1 driver link here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/re...clrtl8101lrtl8139cl-rtl8139clrtl8139dlrtl8100 There are even instructions there for editing their driver if the PCI vendor/subsystem ID don't match. Mine did, so no editing was necessary.
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