asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Kudzu and Zaptel Cards

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?
2) Should it ran at all?
3) If I choose ignore or disable kudzu, will it stop the zaptel cards from being
detected or working?

Any hints will be welcome

TIA

Bart
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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
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