Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: Quick question. | Date | Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:50:10 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Is it *only* possible to do I/O port (or PCI bus or whatever) probing > in kernel? > I'd like to be able to probe for certain hardware, but I'm wondering > if I'll have to write a kernel module to do it ?
You can do it from user mode, but you must be root.
I think there is a HOWTO on this.
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