Just as the USB port on your phone can serve as a serial connection, mass storage device, and a network connection ... a small portion of the Pi’s SD card. There are plenty more USB gadgets ...

[Martijn Braam] found himself the lucky owner of a USB network adapter which seemed ... to disappear to be replaced by the expected network card. It’s a simple but useful hack, but there ...

Also called a "network interface card" (NIC), an Ethernet adapter is a card that plugs into a slot on the motherboard and enables a computer to access an Ethernet network (LAN). In the past ...