Re: NIC reports type incorrectly?

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So, I'm not sure what you think is contradictory, but to answer your
question about if it's a Wireless card or not..

You could use the PNPDeviceID pulling out the Vendor (168C) and Device
ID (0013) and match it against known values for nics ...

If you only have a few wireless cards/wired cards.. you could do this
pretty easily. but this method requires you to have some mapping of
Vendor and Device IDs...

I use this approach in trying to autodetect a network adapter to boot
from CD and load network drivers so I can ghost computer systems.

To that end... Someone has done a lot of the legwork for you (actually
a lot of someones -- but one in particular)..

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/


namely the vendor code and device id.. (this one is for a popular NIC
in Dell PCs) is stored in the NDIS.PCI file in each cab on this site.

ven=14E4 "Broadcom"
dev=4401 "440x 10/100 Ethernet (BCM4401 10/100)"


While I couldn't find your card quickly.. what you are looking for is
in the ndis.pci file in each cab file.. and technically you have what
you need .. namely a simple description for the NIC, the Vendor ID and
Device ID.. from there you need to ascertain if that NIC has wireless
capabilities. once you create that mapping, it can be re-used ad
nauseum.


While you would still need to grep out this information, this seems
like a little cleaner approach to just looking for the word WLAN or a
description name that can change based on the driver or firmware
revision.

It's still a lot of work.

I hope this helps.

Steven

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