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hm.. hadn't touched it for a while, but like all my old projects- it's still on the table...

Am just in the middle of whittling down most of my "collection" of systems, So I might be givi ...

Any Realtek RTL8169-based card will work wonderfully to get gigabit in 7.x:

There's even official drivers for mac-- search for:
RTL8169xV111.sit

is the latest driver package for it.
Cards are ...

on the topic of legality, go ahead and pull my links- it's not really current as to my recent research, and I intend to rebuild the install to operate using the stock 7.6/1 install cd if possible

t ...

I'm still working on the "solution"
there's some strange shenanigans going on:

system 7.6.0 pb3400 install:
System version identifies as 7.5.3 NOT 7.6.0

system 7.6.1 pb3400 upgrade: ...

Another issue to watch for- Word 5.1a also pretty much fails at supporting large volume sizes- From memory, the root of the problem is in the assumption that a volume would never be any larger than 2G ...

for reference, the 10.6.2 update doesn't affect classic appleshare at all- the patch they're referring to had to do with the fact that afptcp volumes have a id attached to them - as it was, apple for ...