On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:30:25AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
->
-> Yes, Linux should autodetect it.
->
-> More correctly, Linux adjusts it's device database during hardware detection
-> so that the PCI/PNP drivers/modules can initialize the cards properly.
->
-> Without this, the card "hints" at how it wants to be configured, but the
-> hardware is never "set up" (loose terms here) so it is therefor not visible
-> to the OS as a hardware device.
Or, alternatively, Linux sets it up at a different address and/or
IRQ. According to the PCI spec, Linux may use any address it wants, and
any of the four IRQs that the motherboard brings out to the PCI bus.
In addition to that, as you add, remove or re-arrange devices on the PCI
bus, addresses, IRQs and other features may change around. You should
automate finding those details if you can.
Can you find it in the /proc system, and extract the address and IRQ? If
so, a short awk or sed script to extract those as arguments for your
setserial command line should do the job.
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