kudzu interaction with printers w/o standby mode (Canon BJC 255)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sun May 2 04:38:55 UTC 2004


Matt Hansen (helios82 at optushome.com.au) said: 
> After a restart of cups it works now w/o having to reboot with it turned
> on! Great. :-) I always select "Do Nothing" when prompted by kudzu.
> Should I select "Keep Configuration" instead to stop kudzu asking this
> question every time I boot with printer off?

Yes.

> Thanks. BTW, why can't Hardware Browser list my printer when it's off?
> Shouldn't it be able to read from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, get the printer
> configuration, and display it in its window? Unless I have the printer
> on on boot, it won't show up in Hardware Browser. A bug or intentional?

hwbrowser does a fresh probe, it doesn't read from the config.

Bill





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