0.52b is terrific !

I never managed to get the NIC going with NE2000 driver, so I switched to 3COM 595. these worked nicely from the very beginning !

all clients work: chess, http, asf. ! I had the same experience in 32bit version.

if you want the change NIC (albeit with poor slow antique XP driver) look here

http://computer.listings.ebay.de/PCI-Karte...ListingItemList

or here

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1