>     Drifiting off topic... Last weekend I decided to take an old ISA 486
>and move it from Windoze 3.11 to RH 7.3 The machine has a no name NE2000
>compatible card in it. It's based on the RTL8009. I can't find a Linux
>driver for it. No one has responded yet on news:comp.os.linux.help . I
>can't find anything in Google other than other people looking for the
>same thing. Anyone know of a driver for such a card?
>THANKS!
>Harold

1.  Supposedly, anything that says NE2000 or "yes, it's Novell" uses
the bottom-of-the-barrel ne.o driver.

2. I tried a search...  Did you see this one?

  "The RealTek 8009 is the winmodem of the network card world. Basically
with this card, the computer CPU does EVERYTHING, including verify checksum
headers, compare masks etc etc. The win9x driver I believe loads the
firmware into RAM for this card too. For an ISA based system you'll have
much better luck using ..."

I'd be the last one to say get another card, but...

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