This card can be used in normal mother board with Mini PCI Express slot, doesn't need to buy a special mother board as it is already built in the PCI Express switch chip.
The Mini PCI Express Gigabit Network Adapter Card adds 2 Port 1000Mbps network connectivity to a Mini PCI Express (PCI Express Mini Card, Mini PCIe) enabled computer system, such as Mini-ITX motherboards.
Perfect for small form factor or embedded systems that originally lack Gigabit networking capability, or for adding a network connection without taking up a full-sized PCI Express slots,
Features
Compliant with PCI Express™ 1.1
Compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, and IEEE 802.3ab
Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps transceiver
Automatic MDI/MDI Crossover Correction
Support IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 Priority Encoding
Support IEEE 802.1Q VLAN insertion and removal
Support multi-entry MSI and multi-vector MSI-X.
Support D3 Enhanced Power Down Mode
Integrated switching regulator, and single 3.3V power source
* Support DOS, Novell OS 5.x & 6.x ,
* Windows Operating Systems : Windows 2000, Windows 7 32/64 , Windows Vista 32/64, Windows XP 32/64 , Windows Server 2003(32/64-bit), Server 2008 R2
* Mac Operating Systems : Mac OS X 10.4.x , Mac OS X 10.5.x, Mac OS 10.6.x
* Linux Operating Systems : FreeBSD 7.X_8.0 , Linux 2.4.X & 2.6.x , SCO 6 & Unix 7.1.x, SCO Unix 5.0.6 & 5.0.7
