> That makes sense. However, why is it that you can only detect a printer > (maybe the case with other hw?) when booting up? Limitations in how you > can talk to the printer hardware? If I run 'kudzu -s' from a VT once > Fedora is loaded up, it returns with nothing. Two scenarios: - the parallel port could be held open by another program - or - - it's already in the config, so it doesn't count as new Bill