A modern normal network card will have onboard an Ethernet controller which, of course, is a pre-programmed microcontroller. Not only does it do the things required to keep a computer on the network, ...
My new Netgear FA311 and the on-board NIC on a Asus P56DC seem to time out. I’ll try to get on the ‘Net after an hour or so of not using the NIC card and get ...