Hi,

Just wondering. I have three different PCs with PCI buses, so I can list my
hardware with lspci.

Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
something similar.

thanks,

Niki Kovacs
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Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
> something similar.

First answer to myself.

dmesg | grep -i isa

That's the best I could think of.

Any other suggestions?

Niki Kovacs
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I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:30:25 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
>> something similar.

/sbin/modprobe isa-pnp isapnp_verbose=1

> First answer to myself.
>
> dmesg | grep -i isa

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Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
>> something similar.
>
> First answer to myself.
>
> dmesg | grep -i isa

Take the lid off and have a look? ;-)

I thought I was the last bastion of ISA cards. I think my one remaining PC
in regular use with an ISA slot only has the one.

Pete

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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:41:22 +0200, Menno Duursma wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:30:25 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>>
>>> Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
>>> something similar.
>
> /sbin/modprobe isa-pnp isapnp_verbose=1
>
>> First answer to myself.
>>
>> dmesg | grep -i isa

Afaik, non-pnp isa cards won't be listed by dmesg. Windows
detects them by probing all i/o addresses (which is the part of the
hardware detection wizard that takes ages).
I'm not aware of a linux tool that does the same.
If you've got an isa card that is non-pnp and you don't know the i/o
address, there are 3 ways to identify it:
- install windoze and let it detect all the hardware
- get the card out of your box and look for jumpers to set the i/o address
- some more recent isa cards come with a dos tool to configure i/o address
and irq, which then is stored in the EPROM of the card. Many isa NIC's
fall under this category.

Most isa sound cards (like the creative sound blaster) use i/o address
0x220 hex and irq 5 by default. You can probably probe it by issuing the
command "/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5" or something. For more
information on the soundblaster driver, see the file
Documentation/oss/sound/Soundblaster in the linux source code.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:31:43 +0000, Stijn Lamens wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:41:22 +0200, Menno Duursma wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:30:25 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>>> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Q: how would someone list ISA cards? Say a Creative Soundblaster or
>>>> something similar.
>>
>> /sbin/modprobe isa-pnp isapnp_verbose=1
>>
>>> First answer to myself.
>>>
>>> dmesg | grep -i isa
>
> Afaik, non-pnp isa cards won't be listed by dmesg.

Depends (multi serial-port boards did/do show up IIRC, for instance.)
Otherwise try:

pnpdump

> Windows detects them by probing all i/o addresses (which is the part of
> the hardware detection wizard that takes ages). I'm not aware of a linux
> tool that does the same.

scanport.tar.gz

Which may hang the box, and idunno if that works on "new" kernels.

[ Snip - look for jumper(s), run DOS tool etc. ]

Another way may be to just try and install all the probable modules for
the device, but again this may cause the box to hang:

for m in `find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/sound`; do
modprobe `basename "$m"`
done

Some take a flag to enable bus probeing, which ones can probably be found
by some "grep", "awk", or similar trickery on either the output of a
"modinfo" loop. Or (more certainly) the device driver source code.

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-Menno.