[SWLUG] Detecting ISA devices

[Tim Shapcott]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Bryn Reeves wrote:

> On 16:56 Mon 01 Dec     , Tim Shapcott wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there is a simple way of detecting any ISA devices in 
> > a machine, similar to lspci? If not, does anyone know of a program that 
> > does probe the ISA bus, that I could borrow some code from? I am not 
> > particularly C-literate and I only have a short time in which to complete 
> > my project, so unfortunately learning C to such a degree that I could do 
> > this myself is not an option otherwise I would definitely do this!
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
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> Wouldn't this be handled (for pnp devices) by the isapnp parts of the kernel
> in concert with isapnptools (http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/)?
> 
> pnpdump(8) from that package might be just what you want.
> 
> The document /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isapnp.txt may help, especially the
> function isapnp_probe_cards() - I don't know anything about the use of this 
> tho so you'll have to do some digging yourself.
> 
> I was under the impression that non-pnp isa devices needed to be configured
> manually - there's no (reliable) probing mechanism for isa? I could well be
> wrong on that though...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bryn
> 
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Thanks to both Rob and Bryn for the replies. isapnp seems to be what I'm 
looking for... Shame that only pnp devices can be detected, but that's the 
way things are I guess.

Best
Tim