> rather than the exception. I'd love to be proven wrong on this. What
> say you people that have *real* NE2000 cards? Am I fighting "bad" clone
> hardware, or is the NE2000 simply a bad design to emulate?
I've never enabled it on a pile of NE2Ks and cheap clones, and on other
even more demented 8390 based hardware (apple mac daynaport II) and not
had any problems.
> About that shoddy merchandise anyway... The clones I've seen the problem
> with ALL bear the Novell certification label. Isn't the whole purpose of
That doesn't even mean they are a good clone. The certification isnt an
NE2000 compatibility tests its a "works with own driver solidly" test.
> functions under *any* OS, e.g., the 3c501 and the 80286, but if it
Actually both of those have people working on them actively
Alan