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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:05:10 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
Cc:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Generating interrupts ? 
Message-ID:  <199910132005.NAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:14:57 %2B0200." <380469B1.A59EA53D@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> 

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> 
> I want to read the the type of motherboard the system is running on, as well
> as the BIOS version string.
> It's easy to read the harware the bios detects ( it's in the 64 bytes you
> can read from port 71 ) but i need the the other info ass well.

Read the Intel paper on UUIDs and GUIDs and consider using boards that 
have writable and lockable UUID support.  None of the other tokens 
you're contemplating are worthwhile.  You might also mandate a 
particular ethernet adapter and use the MAC address.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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