[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Ethernet detection? (X-FB)

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From: tedd@...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:37:27 -0500
>>Where do I find the "driver control entry table"?
>
>Oh, now you're going to make me actually go figure this hack out, instead
>of just spouting off complicated terms and hoping you don't call me on
>it? :-)

I had thought of that. You remind me of the lead in "Good Will Hunting", if
you saw the film. Here we are fighting bits and bytes in the trenches and
you come along making statements that sound like dialog out of Star Trek.
:-)

>I have some code at work that messes around with the driver table. Let me
>go look at it there and I'll get back to you.
>
>-Mars

-Mars:

In any event, the program "Apple System Profiler" does the job (i.e.,
determining if Ethernet is present) for newer machines. If would be nice if
we had an FB program that could do the same. I was hoping that someone may
have written a FB program that would check for the presence of hardware.

I do remember a program (but not the name of the program) that would scan
your machine and tell you all sorts of details (including if Ethernet cards
were present), but I don't what happened to it. It could have been an early
Tech Tools. Too bad. I need it now.

Thanks.

tedd

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