Quick Kudzu Q.

[Calum]

i have an external serial port modem. it's great. it is faster than any other 56k modem i have used, it is reliable, it has lights on the front and it works in more or less any system no problem with no special software.

however kudzu takes issue with it in the following way:

when i switch the PC on, sometimes i have the modem on already and sometimes i have the modem switched off. If the modem is on when i boot (and was off the time before or the other way round) kudzu starts up it's nonsense with a "do you want to configure this new object now?" screen. whatever i choose makes no difference, the modem is still 100% percent functional whether kudzu thinks it exists or not. the main problem i have is how to shut kudzu up looking for it at bootup every time. I still would like kudzu to run in case i add other weird kit, but i want it to leave me alone once and for all about the modem.

oddly there is an option which offers this on the kudzu screen however it does not work. eg: i select "do nothing - no configuration will be changed and you will not be prompted if this device is missing in future" but next bootup it harasses me about it again! it just won't take a telling and it is a waste of half a minute (if i am not on hand it waits 20 seconds before timing out) every time i boot up that i could well do without. is there an exclusion list for kudzu that i can affect myself to sort this out once and for all do you think?

thanks in advance...

[Void Main]

How often do you switch out hardware? If not often:

# chkconfig kudzu off

Then just run it manually whenever you change/add/remove hardware:

# kudzu

Or don't run it at all.

[Calum]

ok, good idea, thanks for that.