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From: Alan Hutchinson on 18 Jan 2010 03:40
Hi there, so sorry that I did not get back to you sooner , believe it or not
I have bean locked out of my G-mail for about two years don't ask me why or
how for that matter, the most important thing is I am back, there has bean
quite a lot of changes since the last time I talked to you, one of them
being ,I have bean getting in to borne shell,and all so I have bean trying
to install a wireless card,but sadly that did not work, I ran into
ndiswrapper con fig problems, I joined the V-lug in Victoria,B.C that was a
much use as a broken stick. B.F.N

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Florian Kulzer <
florian.kulzer+debian(a)icfo.es <florian.kulzer%2Bdebian(a)icfo.es>> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:32:00 -0800, Alan Hutchinson wrote:
> > Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner
> > permissions" so that I can download ndiswrapper and install it,I have
> bean
> > reading the "Gconf help" files but sadly that was not much help, and also
> > the reason that I am sending you this email is I cant or don't seam to be
> > getting contract with the other users,I have sent several users emails
> and I
> > don't get Anne feedback at all it is really frustrating, thank you.
>
> We seem to be having a communications problem. I received the message
> that you sent to me on October the 16th and I did send you a response.
> Check your spam folder, maybe Gmail is doing something stupid. Other
> people may not respond to private messages at all as a matter of
> principle or because their spam filter eliminates them.
>
> I copy my last response below and I CC you directly in the hope that
> this message will somehow reach you. If you keep having problems
> interacting with this list then I suggest that you try the Gmane
> interface as I explained in the previous message.
>
> ---------- BEGIN PREVIOUS MESSAGE --------------------------------------
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> If you want to edit system files then you need root privileges.
>
> If you want to use a graphical text editor (or any other Xorg program)
> then you can install the "sux" package. It gives you a command that
> allows you to become root and use your normal user's Xorg session. So
> you can open a window terminal (xterm, gnome terminal, KDE's konsole,
> whatever your like) and run:
>
> sux
> gedit
>
> Then you will run gedit as root and you can open, change and save
> sources.list. You can of course another editor instead of gedit if you
> prefer.
>
> Another option is to use the gksu package which is a graphical frontend
> for the "su" command. I think it might be installed on Gnome by default
> and be available in a menu somewhere. (I hardly know Gnome because I use
> KDE.)
>
> If you know how to use a standard text editor (one that does not need X)
> then you can just use "su" on the command line to become root and then
> run the editor.
>
> Are you sure that you have to change sources.list to install
> ndiswrapper? As far as I can tell, all necessary packages are in the
> normal ("main") Debian repository. Be aware that the utils package has a
> different name on Lenny; see my last reply on the debian-user list:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/msg00339.html
>
> If you cannot solve your problems with ndiswrapper then you are welcome
> to ask more details, but please send your message to the debian-user
> list instead of my personal address.
>
> If you find it uncomfortable to use your normal email program or webmail
> with the Debian lists then you can use a portal such as Gmane to
> continue the discussion:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/335591/focus=335754
>
> (The --Action-- pull down menu to the right allows you to post a
> followup message to the list.)
>
> ---------- END PREVIOUS MESSAGE ----------------------------------------
>
> --
> Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
> Florian |
>
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