Well, that was quick and painless. Just dropped the NIC into a PCIi slot, and rebooted the 7300. Then, I installed the RealTek driver in the extensions folder and rebooted again. Opened up my AppleTalk and TCP/IP control panels and selected "Ethernet Slot C1", got the MAC address by pressing "info" in the TCP/IP control panel, created an entry for the 7300 in my dhcpd.conf file on my server, restarted the dhcpd, and rebooted the 7300. Piece of cake.

Now my 7300 will always boot up with IP address 192.168.1.30, gateway 192.168.1.1, and DNS 192.168.1.5 which it will get from dhcpd on 192.168.1.5... It will then set the system clock by querying the ntpd on 192.168.1.5 and report for duty. Nice!

And the best part? It now does its network stuff at 100 Mb/s. Much better than that builtin 10Mb/s stuff.

Now I just have to get some fast ethernet cards for my Quadra 700 and 950 to replace the onboard 10Mbit NICs. Hmmm...