> One of the main things that started me down this rabbit trail was > the need to know which Ethernet card is being virtualized in a > particular VM so I can load the correct packet driver.
ca. 30 years ago PCI enumerating has been invented. > I have a > single ETHERNET.BAT file I run to install the packet driver, and > since detecting which network card is installed is a tricky > proposition it's not at all tricky (if you avoid machines without PCI Bios). it's pretty much straight forward, and there are a couple of programs (even somewhere in FreeDOS) implementing 'what network card is present'. works in VMs and real hardware. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
