[KLUG Members] Getting our Compaq laptop on wireless

[Dominic L Hilsbos]

Brock Inglehart wrote:

>That is the instructions that I found on line also.  That's good because
>if I need clarification we will be looking at the same thing.  One thing
>I don't remember, When I open a shell, I'm not in root level.  How do I
>get there.  I remember it asks me for my root password but how do I get
>there?
>
 From an existing shell, or from X (KDE, Gnome, etc.)?

If you are already in a shell you can do an su (it stands for _s_witch 
_u_ser)(check su --help and man su for more info), and then enter the 
root password.

If you're in KDE, or Gnome and don't have a shell, open GNOME Terminal, 
or KDEs Terminal, then follow the above directions.

Or if you're in Gnome/KDE do Ctrl+Alt+F1 and it'll take you to a 
standard login shell, enter /root/ and then the root password.

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Dominic L Hilsbos

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