Redhat 7.1 hardware detection

[Slackmonster]

I've been running for about a month now and I've noticed something peculiar. After about a week of normal use and shutting the machine down every night, I turned it on one day and poof it automagically detected my second NIC. I had completed forgotten it was in there and didn't want or need it configured so I told it to skip it. About a week later I start up the machine and poof, it detects both my NICs as new hardware. I tell it to ignore them and truck on. Then, I start the machine up a few days later and it magically redetects EVERYTHING in my box. Has anyone experienced this kind of trouble before. Right now it is still ignoring everything but I'm afraid that I will run into problems later. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

S

[Edited 7.2 to 7.1 in the subject]

[ 04 November 2001: Message edited by: singlemalt ]

[danrees]

RedHat runs an init script called kudzu at boot-up which trys to detect hardware. I've never experienced anything like you have, but then, I usually like to be able to use my hardware, not stop using it :confused:

[Slackmonster]

I can still use all the hardware that I have been with no problem. I just told kudzu not to prompt me anymore. That's the problem, with the exception of the extra NIC card, all of the hardware was exactly the same as the first time it detected it. Color me confused.

[danrees]

Ah, so you weren't bothered about your NIC because you weren't using it, but kudzu configured it nevertheless?

[Slackmonster]

Right, I didn't need the extra NIC at that time so I told it to ignore it. What got me worrying the most was that after that, the next time I booted up it redetected every single piece of hardware I have in my machine. So far I haven't booted it since so I don't know if it will do it again.