intel wireless2200BG on notebook

[Alexander Dalloz]

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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