[COLUG] Dead coyote

[Jim]

Peter Kukla wrote:

> My ancient coyote firewall box has finally died.  I
> can't complain too much, since I got a lot of use out
> of that 486.

> ... the NE2000 clone doesn't work.

How about an upgrade to a real NE2000? 

> Since I no longer have the floppies that came with the
> card, I cannot reset the interrupt (15) and base
> address (0x320) to see whether that might resolve the
> issue.

I _might_ be able to find that floppy. 

> Any suggestions on a good migration path to something
> that will actually serve my purposes without costing
> me several additional hours of time?

$25 bucks at Microcenter will get you a refurbished Netgear 
wireless "router". 

I think I have a set of two other NICs and matching Coyote floppy also. 
You could just plug them and boot the floppy.