On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 18:45 -0800, Bart Fisher wrote: > Redhat has a 'Hardware Discovery Utility' called Kudzu. > > When I change cards, kudzu pops up and ask to remove/config the card. > Most of the time kudzu has trouble recognizing the Digium Zaptel cards > and calls them something wrong, like calling the TDM card a network > card. > > I'm having a devil of a time getting 3 TE410P cards to come up with > all green lights. For example one or two cards full green, and the > other has one red and yellow. Swap cards give me some other form of > workingness. > > My question are: > > 1) How necessary is Kudzu?
Not very - especially if you plan on configuring things manually. > 2) Should it ran at all? I usually disable it as soon as I have finished an install. > 3) If I choose ignore or disable kudzu, will it stop the zaptel cards > from being detected or working? It shouldn't - but you'll have to make sure kernel modules etc are installed either manually or in your own startup script. I use RHEL 4 on my builds and haven't had any problems with Kudzu disabled - BUT I haven't got more than one Digium card in any of them. Rgds Pete > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
