Do I need to reinstall?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Feb 23 20:08:03 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:06 +0000 (GMT)
> Mark Fraser <fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > First of all where as I'm told I should be able to type just ndiswrapper
> > into a console window, I have to type /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper same goes for
> > iwconfig for which I have to type /sbin/iwconfig and I still can't seem to
> > do a scan.
>
> Type this:
>
> su -
>
> And then try your commands.
Explanation: "su" by itself gives you the UID and GID of root. "su -"
(with the dash) gives you the UID and GID of root AND root's environment
(environment variables, path, etc.). Essentially the dash says "do a
full login of me as root".
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