Just point me in the direction...Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: Just point me in the direction... started by: TheLostandFound Posted by TheLostandFound on Mar. 05 2007,02:48
Well I must say that between a USB DSL installation and the folks at portableapps.com, life could not be easier and better these days, so first, thanks for a first rate job, DSL community!My first questions have to do with some items that I did not find info on, so am just looking for someone to point me in the right direction if the info exists (and my search skills are just not that great) or lend an idea if the info doesn't trully exist. A week of reading and playing hasn't gotten me very far, thus: First off, on a thinkpad r51, ndiswrapper nor prism2 seem to get me going. (my apologies for not posting to appropriate forum; multiple birds--i'd like to get them with one stone so to speak). Not sure if the iwconfig from console telling me "TX-Power:Off" was due to unconfigured, or simply the onboard wireless isn't initialized. The man entry didn't seem to elaborate on this point. Second, java. trying to run a testking program which requires jre, but when wine tries to open, I get prompted for the java jre, and the associated browse only allows me to look in 'program files\common files', and does not appear to let me type in the path to the java folder. did not find java on DSL. Third, I see that I can run a command as su by typing *sudo <command>*, or temporarily move to root by *sudo su*. I noticed when typing su at the terminal, that I was prompted for a password that was never set (by me anyway), and that the only home directory path is for a user named dsl. Are these defaults changeable? it appears that 'sudo adduser' adds me to the ramdisk, but not the knoppix fs? TIA. Eric Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 05 2007,03:14
I can reply only to the last part.The su command itself always requires a password. Since you did not create a root password, you must use "sudo su". The sudo command allows dsl to run any application as root, which in this case is the su command. This will switch you to the root user. The KNOPPIX file system is read-only. There is no way around this. If you want to create a new user, or anything else, in the base system permanently you will need to either remaster the KNOPPIX file or install DSL as a debian-style system. Otherwise your only option is to backup and restore all files created in the ramdisk. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 05 2007,04:54
1. So the device was detected, but not configured? You only need to run wlancardconfig.2. If this is under wine, you will probably have to install a windows version of jre first. (afaik installing mydsl's jre will not be seen by those applications running under wine) |