When logging in as root, please use "su -" The dash will setup the path environment for the root user. This is a general linux thing and has nothing to do with your application. Thanks, Ernest On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 12:35, Kibosh wrote: > Hello, > > >>- adsl connexion (modprobe bug?) > >> > >>I tried to install the speedtouch drivers from Benoit Papillaut. I > >>followed a step-by-step configuration found here: > >>http://christophe.delord.free.fr/en/adsl/redhat.html > >>Everything was ok until I launched the startadsl script in a root > >>console. I still get error messages like "modprobe not found" and > >>"modem_run not found". > >>So I typed "modprobe usbcore" in a root console and got the same kind of > >>error message: "modprobe: command not found". > >>How is it possible??? > > > > It means you need to become root in the correct way, either by: > > a) Logging in as root > > > I am already in root when I am trying to launch the script (typing "su" > in a console then the root password). > > But I found a beginning of solution: I must specify the right path in my > script, i.d. /sbin/modprobe instead of modprobe alone. > > But wait, in a console, when I am root, I can't run "modprobe", so I > guess my PATH variables were not set up during the install... Remember: > I didn't touch nothing since I installed 0.94, excepted installation of > the speedtouch driver. > > I noticed that the tab option in console don't work at all. (usually, it > allows me to see all the commands beginning with the letters "mod" for > example, sorry I don't know the english name of this trick). > > Where can I find documentation about my path variables? How is it that > even with superuser I must type the "/sbin/modprobe" instead of > "modprobe"? Does anyone got the same bug while testing 0.94? > > Regards, > > Kibosh > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto@xxxxxxxx>
