On 3/18/00 07:18, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
Regards,
Sean
Theo. Sean Schulze
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