Is there a Gigabit Ethernet card that works with MacOS 9?
There are any number of PCI cards that make it easy to add Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to non-Gigabit equipped Power Macintosh G3 or Power Macintosh G4 models capable of running MacOS X 10.2 “Jaguar” or higher. Tracking down a Gigabit Ethernet card with MacOS 9 drivers is a bit more of a challenge. However, as first discovered by the always excellent XLR8YourMac, a reader noted that cards based on the Realtek 8169S 1000 MB (Gigabit) chipset would work with MacOS 9 drivers provided by Realtek (although the company actually selling the card would not mention that the card was compatible with MacOS 9 or provide drivers by default). Realtek once required those interested in MacOS 9 to request drivers by e-mail, but later made the drivers available for direct download from the company website before pulling them entirely. EveryMac.com has saved a copy for your convenience, but has not tested the software and cannot promise that it will function as intended. Although other cards that use t
