its an L2 card. But only the PCI based macs have that particular L2 slot. 

I have a 5200 and a 5260 board which are nubus based PPC units, but the L2 slot is completely different. 

and what I mean is, the driver is hard freezing on any PCI mac I have tried so far. with or without the L2 G3 card. The driver should NEVER EVER freeze a machine when the card is NOT present!!! thats the part thats throwing me down the tubes. 

I am really starting to wonder if this MAXPowr G3L2 didnt ship with a very specific driver diskette.