Hello everyone, Just this evening I was happily working away on my desktop, Box #1 below, when lightning struck a house nearby. Immediately my internet connection went out, and so I spent some time troubleshooting. When I was finished troubleshooting, I found out that the embedded LAN connection on my motherboard was fried. Weird, because the router and modem didn't have any problem, but I have confirmed that it is the NIC on my motherboard. The router and modem still work fine. My motherboard is an ASUS E4465_M4A78T-E_v2. The location of my desktop in my house is such that the wifi signal is weak enough to make connecting by wifi not a good long term option. So I need to buy a new NIC to plug into my motherboard, so that I can reconnect by ethernet. I have never installed an NIC, as I have always justbeen able to use the embedded card. So, can you give me advice on anything related to this? The cards that are available at the store right now are these: TP-LINK PCI-E GIGABIT LAN CARD PCI-E 3468 TP-LINK GIGABIT LAN CARD PCI 3269 INTEX LAN CARD IT-584 D-LINK LANCARD DFE-520TX EDIMAX LANCARD EN-9130TXL I don't know if these are all compatible with my board or my system. My board has 2 PCI slots and 2 PCIEX16 slots, so I think that probably the 2nd card listed will work, but I don't know if PCI-E is the same thing as PCIEX. And then, how could I find out if the card I want to pick is compatible with openSUSE? I know most stuff is compatible these days, but I don't want to make the long trip to the store only to find out that I can't use the card when I get back. Thanks in advance -- George Box #1: 13.2 | KDE 4.14 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 16GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB Laptop #2: 13.2 | KDE 4.14 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org