fedora-list Digest, Vol 57, Issue 42

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:06 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>>>    1. Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430
>>> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom
>>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>> Message-ID: <1225986734.594.35.camel at bree.homelinux.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>>>>> Look at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96
>>>> I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2
>>>> choice
>>>>  "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate
>>>> high
>>>> security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.  
>>>>
>>> It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is
>>> normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or
>>> whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed
>>> anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
>> Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, 
>> on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me.
>> First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find
>> modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.  
> 
> Use "su -" (instead of just "su") and you'll get root's version of
> $PATH.
> 
> Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on
> everyone's path.

/sbin on a normal user's path?  A bit dangerous, no?  I thought it was
separate from /usr/sbin for that specific reason.

Oh, NEVER post a reply to a digest.  Create a new thread.  I'd change
the subject but I can't find out what the OP was asking about (yet
another reason to NEVER, EVER reply to a digest).
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