Martin,

I believe I can help here.  Have you ever heard the term "Wake on LAN"?  It
is something your motherboard, your NIC, and your network OS need to
support.  What it does is allow your network server to make a call to a
particular MAC address (the unique address for the NIC) and actually turn on
that particular machine.  It will even load the OS on the machine if set up
correctly.

In order to do this, a separate power switch is needed, much like the way
the power switch is set up on a standard ATX board.  That is what that
little cable is.  It sends a power-up request to the motherboard from the
NIC.  There are a whole lot more settings and issues involved to get this to
work, and I don't know ALL of them, but this is the long-and-the-short of
it.


>From: "Kurr, Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] NIC Questions
>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:04:47 -0500
>
>I recently started installing NIC's in a few systems (using Intel Eth/Exp
>10/100).  There is a small white cable coming off the board with a row of 3
>pin holes (female conn.).  Where does this go and what's it for?  Also,
>what
>does "bootstrap using int 18h" (et. al.) mean?
>Martin Kurr

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