While most Lifehackers have developed a strong relationship to software, the nitty-gritty of hardware is often left alone. After all, that's why God invented the USB port, right? Well, that's fine and ...

The appearance of the XG-C100C outer box looks like this. This is where we opened it. In addition to the network card body (center front), there are also a bracket for low profile PCI (right back), a ...

I know with the Asante NICs, I needed a driver for Mac OS X. I would assume this would be the case for other NIC cards. Yep, you need to install a driver. I recently bought a $10 generic PCI NIC based ...