For those of you who need an ethernet card that works with Mac OS X, this may be a useful tip: Mac OS X has a built-in driver for the RealTek RTL8139 chip. I looked arround and found this Netgear card, based on that chip. It’s not Gigabit, but I wanted it to connect my “new” PowerMac G5 to the ADSL modem, so 100 Mbps is fine. It’s not PCI-X, but it complies to the PCI 2.x specification, which means it will work on the G5 PCI-X slots (although the entire PCI bus will work at PCI speed, not PCI-X). It’s cheap, it works, and I can have the G5 doing all the NAT routing stuff, as I like.
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