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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000,  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote about,  Re: free irq and com port:
> On 3/18/00 07:18, INTERNET:pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl at pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> wrote:
>
> >
> >On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Matthew Stapleton wrote about, free irq and com port:
> >> I am wanting to install a modem onto my computer. Is there a way that
> >> Linux will tell me which irq(s) and com ports are free? I need them to
> >> set the modem.
> >
> >To get a full view of "whats being used" do;
> >cat /proc/interrupts
> >
> >What you dont see you may be able to use.
> >
>
> cat /proc/interrupts is good advice, but I believe there is at least one
> qualification to this, and that it that the interrupt has to have been
> called to appear in the cat /proc/interrupts output.
>
> Several months back I was also searching for an interrupt to give to a
> SCSI card, and I first tried to assign it to the same interrupt my sound
> card used. The sound card's IRQ did not show up in /proc/interrupts
> because I was working in console and kernel had not had occasion to call
> the sound module that session. Thus the IRQ did not show up in the list.

But you should really know what phericals you have and where they are
located should'nt you.!

Anyway this problem will dissaper as soon as all systems have PCI cards
only. But i suppose when that has happened there will be a new sort of card
and the cycle will start all over again.

> Regards,
> Sean
>
>
> Theo. Sean Schulze
>
> tschulze@compuserve.com tsschulze@aol.com
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Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
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