Ethernet card

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that's roughly the only thing NICkStacky let me know: you're better to select between NE2000 or RTL8139. They seem to be the best documented (and still cheap) 10/100 base T adapter we have around.

Driver code available, in Linux, Moebius, Bochs ...
and probably many other OpenSource projects ...
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do they make PCI ne2k clones?

any cheap nic you get these days is pretty much garunteed to be an RTL chip based nic, so you should be ok.
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df wrote: do they make PCI ne2k clones?
In numbers! Check your hardware vendor of choice; quite often they offer "no-name" products that are NE2000 compatible.
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Pype.Clicker wrote: that's roughly the only thing NICkStacky let me know: you're better to select between NE2000 or RTL8139. They seem to be the best documented (and still cheap) 10/100 base T adapter we have around.

Driver code available, in Linux, Moebius, Bochs ...
and probably many other OpenSource projects ...
I'd definitely get an NE2000 as both Bochs and QEMU provide a virtualized version of it. Makes for easier testing!
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<stunned>
Boy! i've just hit http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dow ... word=8139D through a GoogleQuest ... not only does it have the complete specs as PDF, but also a "programming guide" featuring illustrated description of the behaviour, etc. source code (registers, demo with PCI access coded, etc)
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