Re: Device detection?
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:37:49PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Stephen Crowley wrote:
> > > Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible to do a brute force scan for
> > > some older legacy hardware. Just cycle through the i/o and irq ports for
> > > some commonly used hardware. Some devices might lock up on this though, so
> > > they would have to be installed manually.
> >
> > No way, this will certainly crash lots of systems..
>
> Of course, that's why I said it should only be used on devices which wont
> lock up systems.
But how do you auto detect a device that locks up your system when you
probe for it? This is the reason for windows throwing you into safe mode,
no auto detection because you probably crashed from a misguided auto
detect. I prefer linux's way of telling the kernel what you have. But, I
guess someone could make a package that just mod-probes the heck out of
your system with every option until you crash or the modprobe succeeds.
Brandon
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