Looking for driver for Kingston KNE40 Ethernet card for PPC clone

[CTB]

I have just dug out an old super Mac POC clone. It is a 603e/180. Weirdly it had a 169 MHz processor on and it is socketed which is cool. My big problem is that it has a Kingston KNE40 PCI Ethernet card in it. I can’t find a driver. There is a reference to it on a few sites but the links are broken. Any ideas?

 

[ArmorAlley]

Try the Macintosh Garden for an image of the original installer disk. It might be that the Kingston card shipped with the clone and thus has drivers on the image.
My gut feeling, however, is that this PCI card uses chips supported by the Macintosh drivers and that special drivers aren't required.
A second option would be to spend some time going through archive.org [2]
There is this page but I reckon that they are PC drivers: [3]

I did find these two files on the 1997 pages for Kingston on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/19970107033728/http://www.kingston.com/download/etherx/etherx.htm
They might work. However, do look around more, especially around 2002-2003 for more recent drivers.


Alternatively, you could look for a NIC with the RTL-8169c (if I remember that correctly), follow the instructions [1] and get yourself gigabit ethernet for your PCI Powermac.


[1] https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/realtek-rtl8169s-gigabit-ethernet-card-driver
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/kingston.com
[3] https://archive.org/details/kingstonkne40pci

 

[ArmorAlley]

https://web.archive.org/web/2006112...on.com/support/downloads/networking/kne40.asp

File Name:		40_31.HQX
Description:		Macintosh driver v3.1 EtheRx PCI Ethernet (KNE40) (02/24/99)
File Size:		643KB

File Name:		40_33b.HQX
Description:		Macintosh driver v3.3 beta EtheRx PCI Ethernet (KNE40) (11/19/99) OS 9 Compatible
File Size:		545KB

 

[CTB]

The standard Mac drivers didn’t work and I did look on the original installer and there wasn’t anything. However the files I mentioned that have broken links are the exact files you have attached. Thank you I will give them a go today.

 

[obsolete]

Weird. If this is the card, that DEC controller chip is the same one Apple used on its CS II Ethernet cards, and was also used on many other third-party cards around that time. Should be about as well-supported as a Mac ethernet card gets. Maybe there's something weird about Kingston's implementation that requires a unique driver.

 

[CTB]

I installed the drivers provided by @ArmorAlley and it worked perfectly. Thank you. Confirming that the Apple generic drivers definitely didn’t work.

 

[NJRoadfan]

Quite possibly the second most generic 10/100 card out there, one of many based on the DEC "Tulip" chip. Its likely Apple's driver has limited PCI device IDs programmed into it... on purpose.

 

[adespoton]

Quite possibly the second most generic 10/100 card out there, one of many based on the DEC "Tulip" chip. Its likely Apple's driver has limited PCI device IDs programmed into it... on purpose.

I don't personally have the time to work on it these days, but a decade or so ago I started drafting out a plan to take all Apple's old drivers and try to remove as many artificial limitations from them as possible. It never went anywhere, but I'd love it if someone else was bold enough to take up the challenge

 

[croissantking]

I don't personally have the time to work on it these days, but a decade or so ago I started drafting out a plan to take all Apple's old drivers and try to remove as many artificial limitations from them as possible. It never went anywhere, but I'd love it if someone else was bold enough to take up the challenge

Yeah I have a D-Link DFE-500TX card which is a DEC based card. I assume the Apple Enet extension just needs modifying to accept the PCI vendor and device IDs - does anyone know what those are for the Znyx rebranded card so I can search for the substring in resedit?