Hi: A non orthodox question. I have a motherboard with USB and Ethernet on board, but there is no rear panel connectors for it in the machine (PC) chassis. What I need is two L's with their cables to plug into the motherboard. The machine being a bit old, a Pentium Celeron, I ask: are there such things in the market? Thanks in advance.

There are such things for USB, just do a web search for "USB bracket", but I have never seen something like this for Ethernet. If you can't get some of these just put a cheap Ethernet card into one of the PCI slots, shouldn't be more expensive than getting such a bracket for Ethernet.

Alright, TobiSGD, thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, this motherboard has two slots only, one ISA and one PCI. The ISA I have it with a sound board, components facing right and, one Ethernet card I have, if plugged into the PCI, would make its components face left. The moral is, I can't have both plugged in at the same time.

In that case a USB -> Ethernet adapter may help, but they aren't as cheap as PCI Ethernet cards, what I have seen is around 15-25$.

OK, then I'll first see what I can get here. Thanks for your kind posts.

Does the m/b itself have an Ethernet female connector on it? If so, all you need to do is either get a short Ethernet extension cable or just plug your cable directly into the m/b. You may need to cut a slot in the case so you can close it without cutting the cable, but that should not be much of a problem.

See
this usb ethernet thingy!

Thanks a lot.

stf92, you should know by now to post the motherboard model.

USB should be easy, provided that its using the standard USB headers. If is not, you'll have to track down a USB header with multipule wires with connectors, not the 'block' type used by most manufacturers.

As far as the network goes, thats fairly rare. I *think* I might have a 'network to headers' adapter hanging around here somewhere. It could be possible to track down the original manufacturers wiring as well. Without knowing the motherboard model though, its impossible to know if the 'network to headers' adapter I have would work, or track down the original manufacturers part.

OK, cascade9, I'll play by the rules. Motherboard is M741-LMRT-H. The bracket with the cable to the header came within the box, but somebody lost it. I look forward to your answer.

P.S.: And it is the infamous PCCHIPS manufacturer, indeed.

PCCHIPS M741-LMRT-H....you know how to make life difficult stf92.

I couldnt get the exact manual for the M741-LMRT-H, but I found it for the M741-LMRT (which seems to be pretty close from what I can see).

http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/ma...hips/M741LMRT/

No pinout list for the LAN headers though. Just by looking, I can tell that if I do still have a headers->LAN adapter hanging around, its a different pinout. Sorry.

cascade9, don't feel sorry. Here in Buenos Aires I know that I will be able to get the bracket. Thank you so much.

No problem stf92.

I'd have a hell of a time finding PCchips parts here and now. Most of the time when I do a search for PCchips stuff I seem to get a lot of south american sites, so I'd guess that PCchips parts are far more common in Argentina than here (australia).

Good luck