MT> Actually, NEx000 cards were originally a Novell design, manufactured in
 MT> Novell plants with National Semiconductor parts, before Eagle had
 MT> anything to do with them.  When Novell bowed out of the hardware
 MT> business, they licensed the right to manufacture the cards to others.
 MT> Microdyne was the first licensee.  Then Novell signed a deal with Nat'l
 MT> Semi to resell the chipsets (but not boards, due to the Microdyne
 MT> contract), which led to the plethora of NEx000 "clones". When
 MT> Microdyne's contract was up, Eagle Technologies picked it up.   Then
 MT> Artisoft picked it up...picking up Eagle in the process.  Since then
 MT> ('95), Microdyne has purchased Eagle from Artisoft, the ethernet card
 MT> division of Nat'l Semi, and is the sole remaining source and expects
 MT> they'll make back their money as one of few vendors that will still be
 MT> supporting inexpensive 10mbit ISA as the competition races off into 100
 MT> mbit PCI in search of higher margins.
You have followed the NE-2000 very impressively. I went down the same road
trying to locate Infomover and Eagle drivers. However, Microdyne has sold 
their networking product line, and they don't say to whom. The important part 
of all this is that all the drivers are at ftp.microdyn.com, and that 
www.microdyn.com
tells you _nothing_ about how to locate support software.
Jeff
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