Determining Wireless NIC
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bhawver
February 10th, 2009
Has anyone come across an easy way to automatically determine what wireless NIC is installed on a machine? I'm hoping to do conditions on the DS job.
Basically, I'm looking to identify any machines that have the Intel 2200, 3945ABG and the 5100AGN adapters so that the appropriate install of the PRO/Set software can be installed automatically during a deployment.
I tried placing a condition where the Device ID is specified, however, that did not work (am thinking that the condition only works for the active NIC communicating to DS).
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Have you tried using Network Adapter Description as the condition field. It has a drop down box for the value that contains a ton of NIC's. Not sure if the list is from boot disk manager or its a list of all the NIC's that are in use in DS.
I know the information is there, however, I don't know how to call that information (i.e. via the conditions for the job). I would have thought being able to use the Network Adapter Device ID field with the correct value (4222, 4232 and 4220 are all the device IDs for 3945ABG, 5100AGN, and 2200 respectively).
As for "Network Adapter Configuration", I don't see that as an option for the field.
Any other ideas? Or an idea on how to use "Network Adapter Configuration" as a field would work too.
Sorry, I meant to write Network Adapter Description not Configuration.
Thanks for the responses. I'll give that a shot and let you know.
You're welcome.
That seemed to work.
Great!
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