During install, the SMC 9432TX card (aka EtherPower II) was not correctly found although the driver was there (drivers disk) - it's even missing from the cards list that is displayed after inserting the drivers disk. I moved the driver to the (net) install disk with the same results. Adding a new line to pcitable solves this problem for me (well, after moving the driver to bootnet.img; not sure if this is also true for the drivers disk): 0x1400 0x1401 "epic100" "Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC]|9432 TX"
1400 for a vendor id is 'Artx Inc.' - is this a rebadged card?
No, definitely not. We do buy maybe 100 of them each month, even the packaging is from SMC ... However, I know SMC does radically change chips even within a product line - I know that the 9432TX uses at least 3 different chips; the one I did check was definitely the last release from SMC. I just found two computers with older models (the 2nd release I do know about) of the so-called "9432-TX", they do use 0x1000 (is this correct?).
0x1000 (for the vendor) is Symbios. SMC's vendor id is 10b8 (according to /usr/share/pci.ids)