Hello there


I have FC6 2.6.20. I have recently installed a driver for my wiffy card. It all works but it doesnt start at booting time, I have also noticed that if log on as a standard user I cannot run the commands that would eventually get the driver started...

It all seems reasonable, if you are not root you shouldnt run certain commands.

But how can anyone cope by logging into root get it started and then go back to user... is too much. If I try to do su and then run the commands I just get the same useless message "command not found".

Is there a workaround?? Have I destroyed my system once again?.. I hope not it is a fresh install.

Are the necessary services configured to start up? Open a terminal and run system-config-services. If the commands used to start up the driver are in a script, just make sure that script is included in that list.

That's because the necessary directories may not be in your user's PATH environment variable: those directories are defined by root's logon/shell scripts, which are only run if you log on as root, and not if you su into it.

Hi, thanks for the reply

Spot on, I have managed to configure at least one of my drivers! Thank you

If I may also ask on this issue how do I see the boot-up logs in messages and dmesg I have not found it.
What I want is the exact output of the boot up process with the square bracket that contain OK or FAIL.
I m still having problem with one of the drivers and the output that spits out is goes too quick.

Thanks!

Are you saying that using dmesg doesn't give you the boot-up log?