Readme adapter from original readme accompanying Cockatrice/BasiliskII by Neozeed.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cockatrice/files/v0.0/v0.0-3/

 **** THERE IS A BUG IN PARSING PREF FILES, PUT AN EMPTY LINE or a HASH as the 
last entry, and everything will be fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ****

1. To run Basilisk with WinPcap support, install winpcap from here: http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
This will allow you to  use native networking.  

2. To setup the Windows networking, run the program ethlist.exe to determine the 
network adapters available in your computer.

C:\BasiliskII\ethlist.exe
Network devices:
  Number       NAME                                     (Description)
  0  \Device\NPF_{FFFFFFFF-FFFF-7777-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF} (Local Area Connection)

Press Enter to continue...

Enter the \Device\NPF_{FFFFFFFF-FFFF-7777-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF} information in your prefs file.
The prefs file should be named BasiliskII_Prefs and be in the same folder as the Basilisk program.

3. Example BasiliskII_Prefs file:

#disk C:\BasiliskII\name-of-your-bootable-cd.iso
disk C:\BasiliskII\MacOS8_1000.hfv
rom C:\BasiliskII\PERFORMA.ROM
ether \Device\NPF_{AAA4A94C-952A-4C94-9836-D04D4C474051}
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 67108864
screen win/1024/768
frameskip 0
modelid 29
cpu 4
fpu false
nocdrom true
nosound false
nogui true

If you need to boot from CD image, remove the # in front of the first entry, and provide the name of your CD image

4. Startup
When you start BasiliskII, you should then see something similar to this:
C:\BasiliskII\BasiliskII.exe
Basilisk II V0.8 by Christian Bauer et al.
Reading ROM file...
Setting up for a 68040, Without FPU and 32bit addressing
EtherInit with [PCAP]
Pcap version [WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version 4.1.0.2980), based on li
bpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008)]
Ethernet address fe fd 00 00 70 58
Building packet filter.........!
SDL_Audio inited 8bit, 8192Hz, 1 channels
Patching a 32-bit clean ROM (version $067c or higher)

5. Networking inside Mac OS.
Set the TCP/IP panel to automatically receive an IP-address through DHCP.