> It seemed that the ancient lan card was able to transmit packets but not able to receive. > After some inspection with a scope we found out that the RX trace

> It seemed that the ancient lan card was able to transmit packets but not able to receive. > After some inspection with a scope we found out that the RX trace after the transformer was missing / corroded and a patch was needed. A quick fix was to solder a wire and voila we we able to receive an IP address using the mTCP packet software for DOS and the DHCP client that comes with mTCP Mad debugging skillz!