METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUTOMATIC DEVICE DRIVER CONFIGURATION

摘要

A method, system and computer readable medium for performing automatic detection and identification of installed NICs (340) with a minimized likelihood of performing an illegal operation that would hang the detection process. Once the NICs (340) is identified, software appropriate for the NIC (340) may be loaded. Automatic detection and identification of NICs (340) ma y be performed by inserting a portable medium such as a floppy disk (105) in a target computer (102a-102e) and executing a detection program upon startup, or a server computer (104) may be used which executes a program to detect and identify NICs (340) installed in a computer (102a-102e) connected to the server (104) via a network connection (108).