Hi Florian I got your email and I am pleased to say that I have don another install, and this time the P/C was hooked up to my home cable network that I just built recently So the O/S is installed properly and I done what you said,check the synaptic package manager,and low and behold there is was "ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 I have not yet installed it but I will very soon,I want to read up on the help files that you sent me,just to make shure that I do every thing in accordance with the help files,I also checked the spam folder that you suggested and I could not find any email that you said might be in there, but like you said the email program might not be working as it should,So with that said, I have ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 in the synaptic package manger ready for install,and you are right about "owner permissions" or root permissions, best regards Florian.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Florian Kulzer < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 | >