On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:45:02PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote:
> That's not what im talking about. There are some modules which work
> just fine when you modprobe them, psaux comes to mind. And i'm sure
> there are others. Im not suggestting scanning for *everything* just
> stuff that is fairly simple to detect.
No, you don't understand the problem...
Its what else MIGHT be at the ports your poking at which would not take
nicely to being poked at..
We have no way of knowing what could be there, and if it will crash the
system, often it /will/ crash the system, so we really can't probe
safely..
Zephaniah E. Hull.
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:14:42PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
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