PCI Fast Ethernet Card

[Iamanamma]

Hey All:

Is this worth fixing?  The socket has broken loose from its solder.  It did work until that happened.

 

[Franklinstein]

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.

 

[Iamanamma]

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.

 

[NJRoadfan]

If its a Realtek based card, it should have MacOS 9 drivers in addition to OS X.

 

[CC_333]

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).

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[Coloruser]

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?

 

[treellama]

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.

 

[treellama]

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.