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Re: probing hardware with OS/2?

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From: em.pea.sea1
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00
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Georg Schwarz wrote:
> 
> we have a scanner that, via some SCSI adaptor card that had come with
> it, is connected to a PC running OS/2. Since the scanner software (for
> Windows 3.1) is rather buggy we are considering moving the scanner to
> another PC running Linux.
> Unfortunately we no longer can get a hold of any scanner (and especially
> SCSI card) docs. Is there any tool for OS/2 that can probe the hardware
> and reports its characteristics (such as IRQs used, which memory
> locations a card uses, whether it's memory or I/O based, etc.)?
> Thanks.
> --
> Georg Schwarz     schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
> Institut f�r Theoretische Physik       +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
> Technische Universit�t Berlin        http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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Georg, the only thing I can think of that might be what you want is
QCONFIG.  I've used the DOS version but haven't used QCONFIG under OS/2,
so I can't vouch for it.  You can FTP the OS/2 version from
<http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/os2> and other places as well.
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Subject: Re: probing hardware with OS/2?
Date: 1997/04/04
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