Most people wind up using ISA cards / chips - they're supposed to be easier to work with. There are some demo boards and sample code at www.edtp.com. Also, Microchip's ENC28J60 SPI-Ethernet chip is supposed to be Coming Soon. -- -Randy Glenn Computer Eng. and Mgt. Year IV, McMaster University Industry Liason, McMaster IEEE Student Branch randy.glenn-at-gmail.com - glennrb-at-mcmaster.ca randy.glenn-at-computer.org - randy_glenn-at-ieee.org http://www.randyglenn.ca On 8/26/05, Dumitru Stama wrote: > > Hello all > Has anyone ever tried to interface a Realtek RTL8139 (C, D) with a PIC > microcontroller ? I am interested in capturing packets and also making > a small UDP sender / receiver. Everything is a hobby project so bare > with me :-) > I have an ethernet card with Realtek 8139D and I want to wire the PCI > connector of the board directly. Is too hard for me to desolder the > chip and make a new PCB for it. Also the size doesn't matter for my > project. > > Thank you for your time > Dumitru Stama > ( Romania user :-) ) > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist