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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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