> > 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.
>
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
> Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
>
>
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