I've installed Red Hat 6.1 after which I've recompiled a linux kernel
version 2.2.13 with parallel port support built-in. After that
kudzu has begun to hang with a segmentation-fault (because mfr is NULL);
I've patched it and now it seems working properly. I hope this helps.

Giovanni Lagorio (gio)

*** parallel.c-orig	Thu Dec 30 14:33:27 1999
--- parallel.c	Thu Dec 30 14:48:03 1999
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*** 255,261 ****
  	probebuf=calloc(8192,sizeof(char));
  	bytes=read(lpfile,probebuf,8192);

! 	mfr=model=desc=func=modes=NULL;
  	ptr = probebuf;
  	while (probebuf[0]!='\0') {
  		while (*ptr && *ptr !='\n') ptr++;
--- 255,264 ----
  	probebuf=calloc(8192,sizeof(char));
  	bytes=read(lpfile,probebuf,8192);

! 	mfr=strdup("Unknown vendor") ;
! 	model=strdup("Unknown device") ;
! 	desc=func=modes=NULL ;
!
  	ptr = probebuf;
  	while (probebuf[0]!='\0') {
  		while (*ptr && *ptr !='\n') ptr++;
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  		}
  		probebuf=ptr;
  	}
! 	if (!strcmp(mfr,"Unknown vendor")&&!strcmp(model,"Unknown device"))
return NULL;
  	key.pnpmfr = mfr;
  	key.pnpmodel = model;
  	pardev = bsearch(&key,parallelDeviceList,numParallelDevices,
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  		}
  		probebuf=ptr;
  	}
! 	if (!strcmp(mfr,"Unknown vendor")&&!strcmp(model,"Unknown device")) {
! 		if (mfr) free(mfr);
! 		if (model) free(model);
! 		if (func) free(func);
! 		if (modes) free(modes);
! 		if (desc) free(desc);
! 		return NULL;
! 	}
  	key.pnpmfr = mfr;
  	key.pnpmodel = model;
  	pardev = bsearch(&key,parallelDeviceList,numParallelDevices,