The AMD board I'm considering has in it's spec LAN MAC integrated in SiSŪ Can anybody tell me what that means please? Regards.

I think it is speaking about specific Mac drivers to connect to ASDL ( high speed frequency connexion )or LAN, integrated in System.ini file you need to update your program used to connect to internet properly... As you are on MAC system, I can't give any futher information, using myself Microsoft windows.......

Since it's a motherboard for and IBM clone, I doubt it has anything to do with a Macintosh. Usually when talking about NIC's and LAN's, MAC referes to MAChine address of the network card.

RichT, MAC refers to the physical address of your network :)

Physical address of the network? that makes no sense what so ever.

Whoever posted the above: You are correct. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The MAC address is not the physical address of the network. It isn't the PHYSICAL address of ANYTHING! Also, "MAC" does *not* stand for MAChine address, either. It also has nothing to do with Apple. "MAC" is an acronym for Media Access Control. You see, the MAC address is used by the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer within the data link layer of the network protocol stack. The MAC address is a unique address hard coded (well, sometimes it isn't *really* hardcoded, technically) into devices like network adapters, cable modems, and such. The MAC address essentially provides a unique identifier for a node, a computer, cable modem, etc. The way it's supposed to work: every NIC and other similar device has a number encoded into it that uniquely identifies it on a network. Here's one application: AT&T Broadband uses the MAC address in subscribers cable modems to verify that they have a valid subscription. They track things by the MAC address. This way, even if your IP address changes, they can still tell which subscriber you are. They can see the MAC address of the cable modem and the computer's network adapter. If they see more than two MAC addresses, they get suspicious--it's a tell-tale sign that somebody's hooking up more than computer to the line. If you're running Windows 95, 98, or Me, you should be able to see your MAC address by running WINIPCFG.exe. (I'm not terribly sure about this 'cause I normally use NT 4.0, Linux, and BeOS.) If you're running NT, 2000, or XP, you can see your MAC address using IPCONFIG. To answer your question, RichT, what the specs are saying is that the motherboard has a built-in network adapter using a SiS chipset.

All NIC's have 'MAC' addresses. For example, the name of the manufacturer can be derived from it. Go here: http://coffer.com/mac_find/ and see what your's is. CC Ryder