Seeking Drivers for Unknown Apple Ethernet Card?
rbanffy asks: "Does anybody know what this card is? I am resurrecting an old Macintosh LC II and would like to attach it to a network. The card was inside it, but the hard disk had no drivers. It is an LC-PDS Ethernet card with RJ-45 and BNC connectors. The important parts seem to be a SMC 91c92 chip and an EPROM (haven't seen one in years) labeled 'LC ROM 44F0'. Could one of you can identify this critter and point me to the correct drivers?"
A particularly cool thing about the internet is the fact that you really CAN get answers to such vaguely once questions. I once found the title and publisher of an out-of-publication 1980's russian cartoon simply asking around on newsgroups using only a vague secondhand description of one scene in the movie given to me by a friend who had only seen it once when she was like six years old. Withing 24 hours of asking, three different strangers had identified the movie and provided the information I needed to look up a used copy on amazon.com
I've been in the situation of having to hunt for drivers for not-even-particularly-obscure hardware items on Google, etc, and any replies that explain how the driver was found are going to be useful to me. Getting drivers for obscure hardware is an art, not a science.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.