[Dev-C++] Communicating with the Hardware

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Dear Users

	I am together with theese needs presented here. In 1991 I developed a
Fax board for an 286 ISA bus PC, and the bibliography at that time was only:
	1-HALL, Douglas V., "Microprocessors and Interfacing". MGrwaw-Hill´86
	 It was a book that we could find ANYTHING about PC hardware! bus
	 controller, Interrupt controller, timming, DMA controller, blah,
	 blah and a lot of blah!
	2-One good book of C Programming Language, together with another book
	 of DOS graphic routines;
	3-One additional manual of the IBM PC;
	 With this little manual, we could send information to the paralel port
	 serial port, it told us what was the address of this ports, the free
	 interrupts, and we only needed to make outport and inport commands;
	-In my case of my project, three additional books involving the DSP that
	 I used on the board, a telecomunnications principles (CRC, HDLC
         protocols, blah, etc, blah) handbook and a manual for understand
the old
	 PCX image pattern;
	-AND ONLY THIS! GENTLEMEN! With this books, and a hot black coffee we went
	 to the lab, spent some months, and the board was made (of course with hard
	 additional difficulties!).

	But... the sources were clear!
	Everything that I find nowadays is Microsoft´s Wizzard guided... I cannot
	find direct information about Pentium architecture, how to access it, how
	to write a simple program to send/receive some information via USB, or
	paralell port.

	My Questions:
	A) What serious list (like this list) do you recommend to get answers for
	actual bibliography of items 1, 2 and 3 above (in the case of 2 for Win32);
	B) In the case of Linux, what list and what distribution is the best to
	develop device-drivers: Debian, Red Hat, slack,...?

Thank you in advance
Andre

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>From: Christian Wallukat <Chr...@vo...>
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>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:59:56 +0200
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>Hi List,
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>in the good old days of DOS we had the possibility to check the state of
the
>RS232 ports.
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>(In Basic I have tested if GND and another port was connected inp(PORT +
>PIN) )...
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>How can i realise that in cpp under win32 ???
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>I have to check if a circuit is closed  (alert system)...
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>I know that you can not longer get direct access to the hardware ...
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>From: Dondolo Mpho <MDo...@OL...>
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>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:31:33 +0200
>Subject: [Dev-C++] HI
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>Hi Guys,
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>Can anybody help me. I need a code that will be able to read and display
the
>model, make, and other stuff of hardware. For example, the info your
>harddrive, CDROM, Memory .ect.ect.ect.
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>I want to understand how to communicate with your hardware.
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>Regards,
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>Mpho Dondolo
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