Look at the back panel of the computer. If it has a phone line-looking port except wider that has "ETHERNET" written on it, it has it.
You will need to have an ethernet card in order to use dsl or cable internet with your computer.
A.) Buy a network card, stick it into your motherboard. B.) Buy a rare ethernet to USB converter.
It is a network interface card. The purpose of this card is that it allows your computer to connect to the internet with the use of the ethernet cable.
A network interface card is used to connect a computer to an Ethernet network
You likely need to reset the cable modem in order for the modem to locate the physical address of your new Ethernet card. Make sure the Ethernet cable is properly connected to both the modem (or your router) and the Ethernet card at the back of the computer. Following tihs you may also want to restart your computer. You also need to make sure the driver is installed for the ethernet card. It should be located on OS or ethernet disk.
When it is installed with the correct software, it allows a computer to connect to a network.
You will have to buy a card, or get an adapter.
Ethernet is a type of network, so in a way it's both. If you're looking at a computer which says it's Ethernet compatible or contains an Ethernet card, it's probably talking about hardware. These days, chances are that if you have a computer that hooks up to a network that isn't wireless, it's using Ethernet to do it.
There is no such thing as a LAN card. LAN stands for Local Area Network. The card which communicates with a LAN is called an "Ethernet" card. This Ethernet card/controller may be a separate card but in modern computers is more likely to be a single chip built onto the motherboard. The presence of the chip/card will be indicated by an RJ45 connector/socket on the back of the computer.
Modem.
A network card (aka. network adapter, network interface card, NIC, etc.) is a piece of computer hardware designed to provide for computer communication over a computer network.
An Ethernet (RJ45) connection can be found on a network card.