I'm currently taking a repair class and this is related to, but not actual homework.

On a Windows box we had to determine the I/O address, IRQ, and driver for COM1, COM2, LPT1, mouse, modem, CD drive, display adapter, and network card. Is there some relatively easy way to get this info in Linux?

By checking the BIOS, dmesg, and some other hunting I managed to find the I/O and IRQ for everything but the mouse. But how do I determine what the drivers are? I've found the related source and object files in the build tree for the kernel but I don't think those would be the drivers. Mainly because you don't need the source installed if you have a precompiled kernel.

Does Linux have something like Device Manager or Sandra?

Thanks for any help

You can get a lot of information from these commands:
lsdev
cat /proc/interrupts
lsmod
dmesg

Also, if you are using the GUI kde, look in Control Center / Information

Thanks for the reply. lsdev was a new one to me. Now all I need are the names of the drivers. I know that if something is loaded as a module the module is the driver. But what if something is compiled into the kernel. Is there a seperate file that is the driver? Or is the driver actually part of the kernel itself?

For example, if my CD-drive supoport were compiled as a module the driver would be ide-cd.so. Since it is compiled into the kernel is the kernel the driver?

I'm using Redhat, may be different for your OS. During the installation, a lot of generic drivers are loaded which will work in most cases. For example, I can find those cdrom drivers in
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
If I load a driver after the fact like my ltmodem , for example, a new folder is created with the drivers in it. In this case, they are found at...
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/ltmodem/lt_modem.o and lt_serial.o

Find your kernel version with the command:uname -r

I know that /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers has the drivers for devices that are loaded as modules.

But what about devices that are not loaded as modules? To use the CD as an example, if I had CD support compiled as a modules I would have
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o

But I have the CD support compiled into the kernel instead of being a module, do the ide-cd.o does not exist.

Which means there are drivers someplace else also. Those are what I am trying to figure out.

If the driver isn't in the /lib/modules directory, sounds like you will need to go get them. Other than that I don't know where they could be located.