On Monday 11 April 2005 09:53 am, Brad Dameron wrote:

You mean hwscan? I turn this off just as soon as the installation is completed. Open a shell as root and do a "chkconfig hwscan off" to stop scanning for new hardware on boot.

Thank you for the repy, I was getting worried.... hehehe   Basically the problem is that I installed 9.2 on a laptop harddrive attached to a desktop because the laptop has no floppy, cd, or network.  Before I pulled the drive out of the desktop and installed back into the laptop, I copied the first 3 cd's to the harddrive so I could install what I needed once I got the drive back in.  When I put the drive back into the laptop, The New hardware wizard came up and flaked out.  It turns out that when I had copied those cd's to the drive, I had used up all the remaining space on the drive.  I believe this cause the wizard to save incomplete config.  I wasn't able to do much because there were drivers loading for hardware that wasn't there.  I was getting a bunch of kernel messages.  I was finally able to get the messages thing taken care of (accidently) by using sax2 to configure and boot X.  When X came up, the wizard ran again and at least stopped the kernel messages (from an ISA serial card that was in the desktop).  However, the USB network adapter still wasn't working and seemed like the USB was hosed.   I then ran lsmod and modprobe -r  to remove anything that I didn't think was needed, (parport, usbserial, usb-ohci, scsi, etc.) and ran depmod -a afterward. On a reboot, the proper USB hub type was then detected, and the network card configured properly.  The sound still seems messed up, along with some other unknown hardware that shows up in the SuSE Hardware Tool. I'd like to know if there is a way to tell SuSE to re-detect everthing from scratch, like a fresh install, to remove drivers(modules) for what is no longer present and give me piece of mind that I don't have anything extra still being loaded/configured. I'm a little confused about how this tool works. B-)

On Monday 11 April 2005 11:36 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

Try hwscan --all

Doesn't look like that changes anything that is already configured. I can manually change the status of anything listed there, but not what devices it is associated with. B-)