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

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:53:39PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > That makes sense. However, why is it that you can only detect a printer
> > (maybe the case with other hw?) when booting up? Limitations in how you
> > can talk to the printer hardware? If I run 'kudzu -s' from a VT once
> > Fedora is loaded up, it returns with nothing.
> 
> Two scenarios:
> 
> - the parallel port could be held open by another program
>   - or -
> - it's already in the config, so it doesn't count as new
> 
> Bill
I would accept this if it was happening just to printers. But my
experience with modems indicate that your expalnation does not hold.
In my case also kudzu on the initial boot recognised that the modem
had changed. I said to keep the configuration and it is in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf. However, kudzu is not triggered by further
boots, nor by my removing the modem information from the data base.
The seriel port is certainly not used by another program when I
reboot. So my conclusion is tha for external devices like printers and
modems kudzu does not work properly.
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