intel wireless2200BG on notebook
Jim
lawrence.jim at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 02:39:02 UTC 2004
*******************************Results*********************************
[jim at Home ~]$ su
Password:
[root at Home jim]# /bin/modprobe ipw2200
bash: /bin/modprobe: No such file or directory
[root at Home jim]# cd /bin
[root at Home bin]# ls
arch dnsdomainname kbd_mode ping tcsh
ash doexec kill ping6 touch
ash.static domainname ksh ps tracepath
aumix-minimal dumpkeys link pwd tracepath6
awk echo ln red traceroute
basename ed loadkeys rm traceroute6
bash egrep login rmdir true
bsh env ls rpm umount
cat ex mail rvi uname
chgrp false mkdir rview unicode_start
chmod fgrep mknod sed unicode_stop
chown gawk mktemp setfont unlink
cp gettext more setserial usleep
cpio grep mount sh vi
csh gtar mt sleep view
cut gunzip mv sort ypdomainname
date gzip netstat stty zcat
dd hostname nice su zsh
df igawk nisdomainname sync
dmesg ipcalc pgawk tar
[root at Home bin]# cd modprobe
bash: cd: modprobe: No such file or directory
[root at Home bin]#
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:34:38 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Do, den 09.12.2004 schrieb Jim um 3:27:
>
> > need help installing the driver from ipw2200.sourceforge.net
> > i have the file they sat to use, i read through th instructions,
> > trying to use some commands and the are not working
> > [jim at Home ~]$ modprobe ipw2200
> > to see if it was installed but i get a ERROr
> > bash: modprobe: command not found
> >
> > james lawrence
>
> Only root is allowed to add modules to kernel space. You try to modprobe
> as user jim. It fails because modprobe is in /sbin and thus not in
> normal user's PATH environment. Even if you would say "/sbin/modprobe
> <module>" it would fail if you are not root.
>
> Alexander
>
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