Progress! After a number of failed attempts (what are the odds of 2 toasted 3.5" floppies in a row?) I have produced a network.img for Mandrake, and the network boot believes that it detects the card and can identify it through an exisiting module 3c59x, despite the card not being on anybody's list. Now onto the sticky part. Getting the network connection between the two computers on line to transfer the distro. This is the hard part due to vast inexperience, and the knowledge is also why I am trying in the first place. Thank you all for the moral support. I need it. Colin
I am now staring at a: 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI NIC 3CSOHO100-TX
Yeah, I would be wary of anything labelled "SOHO" since it is probably a dumbed-down version of a decent product.
Sorry I cannot help!