For an easy-to-talk-to Ethernet controller, you might
check out the SMC 91C94; it's an ISA-bus device, has
pretty much everything you'd need, and seems fairly
easy to talk to. As mentioned earlier, it handles all
the Ethernet stuff on its own, and only needs simple
I/O cycles to move data in and out. You gotta make
your own packets, but it'll ship 'em out for you.

Price is sub-$20, and there's several related variants
to the part.

http://www.smsc.com/smschome.html

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