Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Tell the Driver the Configuration 6.1. Just how this is done depends upon the driver.
Some drivers have more than one way to find out how their physical device is configured.
At the other extreme, the driver does everything automatically and you have nothing to do. It may even set the bus-resources in the hardware using PnP methods. In the middle are cases where you run a program to give the resource info to the driver or put the info in a file. In some cases the driver may probe for the device at addresses where it suspects the device resides. It may then try to test various IRQs to see which one works.