>
> I have to disagree with that statement. I have found kudzu to do a very nice
> job of detecting hardware and also changes to my system. I have both added
> and deleted hardware and each time kudzu detected the change and made the
> appropriate changes.
>
> I'm sure it's is not perfect nor that it hasn't caused problems, but to say
> that it doesn't do automatic hardware detection is just not true.
In my case, it detected & configured my SCSI adaptor.
Next boot it detected and configured my CD writer.
Next boot it discovered my CD writer wasn't there any more; presumably
because it was empty.
All was already working before the weed found it in the first time; it
didn't do anything useful for me. About this time I tried to remove it &
found Xconfigurator requires it, so I contented myself with telling it to
shut up.
I imagine some folk do find the concept a good one - after all MS does it
in Win9x, and someone actually decided to write the program, and someone
else decided to included it in RHL and somone else decided to change
XConfigurator to use it.
For me, it solves a problem I don't have. I do not often add or remove
hardware to my system (unless inserting and removing CDs and MO disks is
changing hardware).
When I have changed hardware recently, either I wanted to configure it
manually (HDD), or it didn't require special configuration (I can change
between my 14k4, 33k6 & 56k modems at will, without reconfiguring
anything) or it's a once-off thing (i740 card) that doesn't need to be
reinspected each boot.
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