*******************************Results********************************* [jim@Home ~]$ su Password: [root@Home jim]# /bin/modprobe ipw2200 bash: /bin/modprobe: No such file or directory [root@Home jim]# cd /bin [root@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@Home bin]# cd modprobe bash: cd: modprobe: No such file or directory [root@Home bin]# ************************************************************************ On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:34:38 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> 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@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 > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp > Serendipity 03:32:31 up 3 days, 2:54, load average: 0.21, 0.57, 1.05 > > > -- james lawrence http://jlawren7.blogspot.com
