Most of your hardware detection and configuration is done during installation of Linux.
However, every time you boot kudzu performs redetection and compares the current config with the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file.
Cat this file to see what it looks like.
Note that you can call kudzu as a command to perform redetection, should this ever be necessary. If no new hardware is detected, you’ll be kicked back to the command prompt (eventually). Obviously this is useful on hot-pluggable systems, but nowhere else.
- Network cards – adds an alias to allow you to address the device – eth0, eth1, etc.
- Modems – links the new modem to /dev/modem
- CD-ROMs – links the new player /dev/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom
- Sound cards – runs sndconfig to configure and test