> I bought for AUD 70 for HP Vectra P100 24MRam, 400MHdd and even with a nic.
> 
> But NetBSD1.5 boot disk does not recognise the NIC may be it is too old. I look up the HP web site but they have not much there except a driver dated 1997. I am quite sure it is only a window driver. So folks should I just throw this away if it is not recognised? Or you have better idea.

most of network cards are supported in netbsd. it just may be not
autodetected.

it you have windoze still installed try to look what's the driver name and
what IO,IRQ is used.