Schorschinjo
Member
Just to share an experience from the last days:
Last year I bought a Sonnet Presto PCI-Card to upgrade one of the PCI Macs to Gigabit.
Choosing a product from Sonnet, without prior verification, I suspected, that I will find drivers for MacOS9 more likely, than when I blindly chose any gigabit PCI card.
Unfortunately, I had to find out, that Sonnet only has drivers for MacOSX and not for MacOS9. So I put the card away.
Lately, I picked up the topic again and after some googling, I found, that cards with the Realtek chip RTL8169 will work under MacOS9 (and that a driver exists).
When the card arrived, I put it alongside the Sonnet card on my desk and found some similarities. See for yourself:
To the left is the Sonnet card, to the right is one, that was sold as "PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Level One GNC-0105T, RJ-45, RTL8169S-32"
Very likely, the Sonnet card is pretty much the same as the Level One card. And even more likely, both are based on a reference design from Realtek.
So I suspect, the Sonnet card would work under MacOS9 using the drivers from Realtek (I did not yet try that myself)
BTW: Under MaxOSX, both cards work without the need for a driver.
Last year I bought a Sonnet Presto PCI-Card to upgrade one of the PCI Macs to Gigabit.
Choosing a product from Sonnet, without prior verification, I suspected, that I will find drivers for MacOS9 more likely, than when I blindly chose any gigabit PCI card.
Unfortunately, I had to find out, that Sonnet only has drivers for MacOSX and not for MacOS9. So I put the card away.
Lately, I picked up the topic again and after some googling, I found, that cards with the Realtek chip RTL8169 will work under MacOS9 (and that a driver exists).
When the card arrived, I put it alongside the Sonnet card on my desk and found some similarities. See for yourself:
To the left is the Sonnet card, to the right is one, that was sold as "PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Level One GNC-0105T, RJ-45, RTL8169S-32"
Very likely, the Sonnet card is pretty much the same as the Level One card. And even more likely, both are based on a reference design from Realtek.
So I suspect, the Sonnet card would work under MacOS9 using the drivers from Realtek (I did not yet try that myself)
BTW: Under MaxOSX, both cards work without the need for a driver.