Is anyone using a RealTek based Ethernet card in their S900 in the lower slots?
Apparently, their 8139 chipset finds its way on to many cards and the Mac drivers are downloadable at RealTek's website.
The reason I ask is that I want to know if their drivers work properly when the ethernet card is behind a PCI-PCI Bridge--i.e. in the lower slots of the S900 or J700.
If they do, then I may give the SIIG USB/FireWire/Enet combo card a try. It uses the 8139D chipset and they get three devices on the card by sticking them all behind a PCI-PCI Bridge of course.
The other thing I need to check is whether their USB and FireWire chipsets are supported by the Apple drivers. Anyone know how or where to find that information? The chipsets are NEC 720100AGM-8EY for the USB and TI143AB23 for the Firewire (I think). Actually, I just Googled on the USB chipset number and brought up specs on another card that uses it, which claims OS8.6 and forward compatibility (OSX required for USB 2).
And googling and a visit to TI's site suggests that SIIG sent me a typo and the Firewire chipset should be TSB43AB23, which TI lists as OHCI 1.1 compliant. Is that the requirement to work with the Mac drivers? It seems like I've read that somewhere.
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