How about installing new hardware AFTER system installation?

[Brian Durant]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:13:08 -0500, Michael Scottaline
<mscottaline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:21:11 +0700, Brian Durant
> <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed Kudzu as well (Warty), just in case, up in space... I was
> > a little suprised that it wanted to configure all of my hardware, so I
> > skipped my network cards, just to be on the safe side. Instead, I
> > tried configuring my MS wireless mouse (thinking maybe I could get all
> > of the buttons to work. The response was:
> >
> > sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/mouseconfig: No such file or directory
> >
> > Even a newbie like myself can pick up on that Kudzu seems to be
> > expecting config files to be places other than where they actually
> > are. I assume this has to do with this originally being a Red Hat
> > tool? It is a package in warty-universe, so I have to admit I am a bit
> > mystified.
> =============================
> Perhaps someone on the list knows how to modify kudzu to work more
> efficiently w/debian based distros.  I'm [i]guessing[/i] that kudzu
> will work pretty much out of the box w/ RH like distros (Mandrake,
> SUSE, fedora, Novell, CentOS, et. al.) but requires tweaking for
> Debian like systems.  May not work at all w/Slack and its derivatives

Interesting. Now my mouse seems to be acting a bit flakey. Not
tracking precisely, speed not constant, sometimes can't select an item
properly from the Apps and/or Computer menu in Warty. I wonder if this
has something to do with the error message I received?

Cheers,

Brian