problem with wireless card

MICHAEL WEAVER michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com
Thu Feb 23 16:11:16 UTC 2006


My Laptop is only set up with one account because it is only me who uses it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Hartley" <henryhartley at westat.com>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: RE: problem with wireless card


On Thur, Feb 23, 2006 9:44 AM MICHAEL WEAVER said:
>> 
>> Yesterday someone quite experienced in the technical field had a
>> look at my laptop to find out why I couldn't make a wireless
>> connection.  He found that he could log into my system after
>> booting but for some reason when he tried to do something and he
>> was asked for my password it wasn't accepted.

It sounds to me like there may be an issue with your account not being
authorized for sudo.  Does your laptop have more than one user
configured?  There should be at least one user set up that can run as
sudo.  The trick, of course, is becoming a sudoer when you don't have
sudo rights.  Sort of difficult by design.

-- 
Henry

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