Re: [RULE] does Slinky detect do ISA?

[Richard Kweskin]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:37:57 +1100
drose <address@hidden> wrote:
> snip 
> Regarding hardware detection in general, is it possible to have a piece
> of software which can see that there's an ISA card at 0x300, IRQ 12 (for
> example) wihtout having to know what it is or how to use it, or is
> loading a driver and using the hardware the only way to find out the
> details?
> 
Hello

I have installed plug and play isa cards with Slinky. These can usually be 
detected by isapnp. But isa cards which are not plug and play (or are preset by 
software to not be - I have some of these, too) will not be detected unless the 
input/output address(es) and irq the jumpers or software settings the card has 
are manually put to insmod.

You guessed it when you said you need to know the hardware, have the kernel 
compiled to either attach the module(s) or contain the driver internally and 
then see the results.

At least that is as far as my experience has been. Does anyone else have a 
different experience? Of course I will quickly add that Windows could do no 
better.

Richard