on board

[Sean]

It means the nic is built on to the board. it frees up a pci slot but
still takes an irq. 

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:

> doesn't that just mean a NIC hard-wired onto the motherboard?
> Frees up a PCI slot I guess.
> 
> 
> >>> "Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> 05/25/00 04:48PM >>>
> My friend just bought two PCs.
> 
>     http://www.pcware.com/m598lmr.htm 
> 
> It says 'onboard ethernet'. What am I supposed to take from this feature? How
> do you make use of that? So you don't need a e-card?
> 
>  --
> Marcel Kunath
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