Implement NE2000 ISA Ethernet NIC driver (AI)

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Add a driver for NE2000-compatible ISA Ethernet cards based on the
DP8390 controller. Features:

- PROM-based MAC address detection and validation
- Programmed I/O (PIO) remote DMA for data transfers
- Ring buffer management for RX with wrap-around handling
- IRQ 9-driven packet reception and transmission
- Synchronous TX with timeout
- Character device registration as 'eth' class (/dev/ethN)

Probe verifies card presence by resetting the controller, configuring
it for PROM reading, and checking the MAC is not all-0xFF/all-0x00
(which would indicate no hardware at the I/O base).

NE2000 memory layout (16 KiB on-card RAM):
- Pages 0x40-0x45: TX buffer (1536 bytes, 1 MTU frame)
- Pages 0x46-0x7F: RX ring buffer (~14.5 KiB)

Tested with QEMU: `-device ne2k_isa,iobase=0x300,irq=9` correctly
detects the card and registers /dev/eth1. Without the NIC option,
probe correctly reports 'not found'.

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