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| I'm sure there's an API that will
| determine interface type; after all, how does WMI do it if not via
| APIs?
|

  I think WMI has its own drivers for handling hardware.
Ever since WMI came out, a lot of tweak programs and
hardware info. programs use WMI to return system info.
....which in my experience is about all that WMI *is*
useful for.