PCI Ethernet Card

[Retroman]

does anyone no where I can get a PCI ethernet card for a Performa 6400/200, I'm in the UK. I don't see many come up on the UK ebay

 

[Bolle]

just get that card: ebay

and that driver and you´re ready to go

 

[Retroman]

Thank you for your help bought it and downloaded the drivers

 

[Retroman]

got the card and installed the drivers but can't get it to work, no ethernet

 

[Bolle]

what OS you got? installed OpenTransport?

 

[Retroman]

I'm am using OS 9.0 and yes open transport is installed.

I have patched the driver with my card id and no good I have also tried to use the driver as is and still no good.

 

[Charlieman]

Funnily enough, I have never managed to get any Realtek product (ethernet, wifi) to work reliably in a Mac. I've tried a 10/100 PCI ethernet card with patched drivers on Mac OS 9.1, with no success, and in the absence of any diagnostic software I can't recommend them.

Retroman: Asante 10/100 PCI cards appear on eBay UK every month or so. They work.

 

[rmx77]

what you have to do is custom install all the ethernet drivers for the mac. when it gets to the install portion of the os cd click on customize and then click on the grey rectangle on the top next to the mac os 9 name that has a checkmark by it and you will get a drop down menu that gives you options recomended install, custom install, custom remove and click custom install. then go to the network and connectvity or whatever it calls it and click the arrow to the left of it and then go to ethernet and checkmark that and then you can start installing the os. hope this helps

 

[Gil]

Funnily enough, I have never managed to get any Realtek product (ethernet, wifi) to work reliably in a Mac.

Neither have I! I had a basic PCI NIC compatible with pretty much every OS out there. All you had to do was copy the Extension from the CD to the Extensions folder. Never worked.

I'm so thankful for my AsanteFast 10/100 NIC.

 

[coius]

Try a D-Link 530TX+ 10/100 Ethernet card. It's great, I got one and they have drivers for all the way back to OS 7.x.x

I use mine a lot and refuse to give it up. Nice card, still on sale, and it's cheap!