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searching for new hardware - how to run?
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When Red Hat boots there comes "searching for new hardware" text, and
forexample if I want to change settings on network card, if I take off
the card from machine, boot up, it detects its gone, I select remove,
turn off computer, put card back in, and boot again, it recognises it
as new, and I can enter IP-address, gateway etc. for that device.
But If I don't want to physically remove the physical network card to
do that, is there a way to remove it through system?
Is that program that searches for new hardware on startup, anaconda or
something else, and can it be run/configured from commandline?
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| David 2002-10-26, 12:24 pm |
| Teemu wrote:
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> When Red Hat boots there comes "searching for new hardware" text, and
> forexample if I want to change settings on network card, if I take off
> the card from machine, boot up, it detects its gone, I select remove,
> turn off computer, put card back in, and boot again, it recognises it
> as new, and I can enter IP-address, gateway etc. for that device.
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> But If I don't want to physically remove the physical network card to
> do that, is there a way to remove it through system?
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> Is that program that searches for new hardware on startup, anaconda or
> something else, and can it be run/configured from commandline?
It's called "kudzu" which can set so it doesn't run during system boot
if you want with "ntsysv" and remove the asterisk next to "kudzu"
Then if you don't want the network card to be active, run the command
below to shut it down where the ethX would be the correct device of course.
ifconfig ethX down
To activate it again.
ifconfig ethX up
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| Teemu wrote:
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> When Red Hat boots there comes "searching for new hardware" text, and
> forexample if I want to change settings on network card, if I take off
> the card from machine, boot up, it detects its gone, I select remove,
> turn off computer, put card back in, and boot again, it recognises it
> as new, and I can enter IP-address, gateway etc. for that device.
>
> But If I don't want to physically remove the physical network card to
> do that, is there a way to remove it through system?
>
> Is that program that searches for new hardware on startup, anaconda or
> something else, and can it be run/configured from commandline?
What exactly are you trying to do here? Do you want to know what the program
that detects new hardware(kudzu) is, or just disable/configure your network
adapter?
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| On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:33:56 GMT, matt <not@gonnatell.ya> wrote:
>Teemu wrote:
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>> When Red Hat boots there comes "searching for new hardware" text, and
>> forexample if I want to change settings on network card, if I take off
>> the card from machine, boot up, it detects its gone, I select remove,
>> turn off computer, put card back in, and boot again, it recognises it
>> as new, and I can enter IP-address, gateway etc. for that device.
>>
>> But If I don't want to physically remove the physical network card to
>> do that, is there a way to remove it through system?
>>
>> Is that program that searches for new hardware on startup, anaconda or
>> something else, and can it be run/configured from commandline?
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>What exactly are you trying to do here? Do you want to know what the program
>that detects new hardware(kudzu) is, or just disable/configure your network
>adapter?
I got it working now. I think netconfig was what I looked for. I think
kudzu runs netconfig when finding new network-card, atleast I got
similar screen where I could enter settings for network card.
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