I would like some hard data, as some hardware will present a cookie as welldetect network card to select the correct XIF on other hardware..You can't, for very simple reason: TOS doesn't know about such hardware, so if there is a cookie then it's installed by the driver...
No. Only the driver will do that. So you can't determine whether to install a driver based on cookies in this case. There is unfortunately no easy way to detect the presence of networking hardware under TOS/MiNT before the driver has been installed. The same applies to other add-on hardware like graphics card.
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