Great success :D MPX 5038B compaq network card
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    Apetiger
    Posts: 1 from 2012/3/25
    I just picked up a powermac g4 (3.1) and I wanted to try out morphos. ofc the onboard lan didn't work. So I opened my spare parts drawer and found a MPX 5038B card from a compaq. And it worked!

    Just wanted to tell you guys - maybe someone is having a hard time getting the realtek cards or something...
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12403 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I opened my spare parts drawer and found a MPX 5038B card from a compaq.
    > And it worked!

    Nice find :-) A quick Google search reveals that the MPX 5030/5038 is an RTL8139 clone.

    > maybe someone is having a hard time getting the realtek cards or something...

    The RTL cards are a dime a dozen, really, more than any of its clones. But it may be that coincidentally, someone has such a clone card instead of an RTL card in his spare parts drawer, and thus find your finding helpful.
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