From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 13 13:15:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB2B14C3A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00709; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910132005.NAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za Cc: Narvi , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generating interrupts ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:14:57 +0200." <380469B1.A59EA53D@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:05:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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