What options do you have in the Appletalk pane? Is TCP/IP actually enabled (normally when you enter and then quit the pane - albeit in OS 8 - you have to enable**) and can you see anything in that pane? [i may be misremembering a failed attempt to import control panels into System 6 on my SE, but isn't Network not actually essential to setting up networking - somewhat counterintuitive to the name?]
I'll confess the earliest I've used was 7.6 but it's similar to 8/9, and in my experience they are pretty much plug-in play although I don't have a third-party card. However, once the card works, the actual setup shouldn't be that hard. Appletalk should be enabled and I think set to some ethernet setting (though that may be in Network). TCP/IP has to be enabled and should show some indication of a DHCP server - otherwise what uniserver said might apply and it might have trouble actually being assigned an IP by the DHCP server.
** I just made my PM 7100 a dual-boot 7.6/8.5 machine. Let me go verify the bulk of what I just said.
I'll confess the earliest I've used was 7.6 but it's similar to 8/9, and in my experience they are pretty much plug-in play although I don't have a third-party card. However, once the card works, the actual setup shouldn't be that hard. Appletalk should be enabled and I think set to some ethernet setting (though that may be in Network). TCP/IP has to be enabled and should show some indication of a DHCP server - otherwise what uniserver said might apply and it might have trouble actually being assigned an IP by the DHCP server.
** I just made my PM 7100 a dual-boot 7.6/8.5 machine. Let me go verify the bulk of what I just said.