Perhaps some day I'll revisit this issue out of curiosity. Darn it. The 8169 ought to work, and it bugs me that it doesn't....
I had a similar problem not long ago getting a gigabit ethernet card (also RealTek 8169) to work, both with OS 9 and OS X. Mind you, it was with a G4 (Sawtooth) rather than a G3. What solved my problem was inserting the CD-ROM that came with my ISP-supplied router and letting that software configure the "new" connection. Voila, suddenly the PCI slot was recognized. I'm pretty sure the card itself had always appeared in System Profiler, but Network preferences/OS 9 Control Panels had simply refused to cooperate with it, despite my futile efforts to force them to.
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