[WBEL-users] Turning Kudzu off solved problem

[William Hooper]

Shapiro, Mark said:
> I'm a bit puzzled as to why having kudzu running would interfere with
> network connections, unless perhaps there is a corrupted hwconf
> database...

Hmm.  I didn't know it applied to WBEL (or RHEL can someone confirm?), but
kudzu on Fedora Core 1 leaves the NIC in a bad state after probing it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389

>
> Is there any problem leaving kudzu off (other than not recognizing new
> hardware on bootup)?

It _might_ have some effect on using USB and or Firewire devices, but I
believe those are handled by something else (whose name escapes me).

-- 
William Hooper