Etherwave cards were made for Nubus and possibly the LC slot. They cannot be used without the driver, which requires classic networking. With some of these classic drivers, you can use ResEdit to pick out the DRVR resource the installer sticks into your System file, and paste it into a different System file, possibly an Open Transport-only system. I think I tried this once with a Farallon driver and it didn't work.

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I have a Farallon EtherWave card in my LC III. So they were made for the LC PDS slot. I'm also using mine without a driver in System 7.5.3. So either Apple began supporting the Farallon EtherWave in Mac OS somewhere between the release of System 7.5 and 7.5.3, or the EtherWave PDS cards do not require a driver for operation.

I am also using Open Transport 1.1.2 on my LC III, and it works just brilliantly with my Farallon EtherWave PDS card. I did not have to do anything to get this card to work with Open Transport. I just popped the card into the PDS slot. Connected an Ethernet cable to the card, and everything just worked.

The Farallon EtherWave PDS NIC is actually my preference for 68k Macs with LC style Processor Direct Slots. The reasons being:

• These cards just plain work. No drivers needed.
  
• These cards just plain connect. They have no problems with auto-sensing 10/100/1000 switches/hubs/routers.
  
• These cards just save. They have a second RJ45 port that you can use to daisychain those miserable Asante and Dayna NICs that will not negotiate with 10/100/1000 switches/hubs/routers. So they save you the need to use an inline 10base-T hub.