ok.. im trying to login as root.. i know how in a konsole but when i go back to the graphical interface it wont let me write on or over or in anything besides my own user directory..

Can someone help please.

I just got the wireless card drivers downloaded and cant unpack them to the folder i want

Uh, according to the process arhictechture, you can't...however, if you find some way to create the process su under your Window manager, then have everything launched from the Window manager be under su. However, I think its just easier if you log out and relogin it as root.

Its a bad idea anyway - you should only use root priveleges for certain tasks, and not everyday or general GUI tasks because if there's a glitch or malicious code in the processes and they are under su, they can do anything.

Which distro and which DE(kde, gnome, etc.)? If your using kde, in most, but not all distros, you can get konqueror to launch with root privileges by doing:

$ kdesu konqueror (note: you'll get a popup window asking for your root password)

or su to root and run:

# konqueror

If you hit F9 after it opens you get the usual navigation panel on the left.

o...k

i have to pu it in a certain place

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/download.html

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these directions still confuse me

I totally misunderstood...

I thought you wanted the whole GUI system to be under root, which I do not advise. However, when you use the cvs command, you have to cd to the directory (make it if it doesn't exist) you want to the drivers to be installed.

If you are uncompressing it, I still advise command line - manually by GUI is much slower.

CVS is merely just taking the files from a specified directory in a system designed to keep track of specific versions. CVS I think would be the source file, which I suppose you know how to use the make command, or any installers included.

The drivers seem to be provided in either tarball or CVS, choose one. Tarball requires uncompressing (if the files are large it can be quite a slow process) while CVS just gets the latest files (under those directions)...do you know how to use the CVS command?

um.. i guess not.. lol

im a TOTAL linux newb

heres what i did....
1. downloaded the zip or w/e compressed files (i know it isnt zip) to my users desktop...then uncompressed the files to desktop and i now cant move those files into the necessary directory

if someone uses the linux drvers please explain fully how you got your wireless card working...

thanks

You don't need to use root to extract a file within your own directory. Firstly cd to the directory you want to install it to (within your own of course) than untar it. If you have mishaps you can easily try it again.

You should use the commandline to untar it.

If the file ends in .bz2 type in the commandline:

tar -xvjf (location of file)

if it ends in .gz type:

tar -xvzf

It will then extract everything to the directory you cd'ed to. Cd'ing means just changing the focus of the commandline to a particular directory, so you can avoid the chaos of installing all the contents of a tarball onto your desktop.

What directory are you trying to move it in? If its something like /usr/lib - Firstly, its suicide trying to move in manually, and secondly useless if it isn't compiled. I have no idea whether its a source file, but I suppose there is an installer. Most likely, its a commandline installer - su as root before running it.

yes the instructions on some site said to make a folder in /usr/lib and extract the files to it..

There were 3 files in one of the compressed files.. and i think 1 in the other.

this was the website

http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php

i appreciate the help but its not really getting through to me..

I sort of understand now cause b4 linux i studied dos and i knew alot in that.. anyways.. i really need very very specific directions on what to do.. the directions on the site above seem to be builit for a semi-pro.. too bad i havnt even learned the damned file system yet.. lol..

so anyway.. someone please provide exact detail

In answer to your initial question...

A terminal is also known as a shell, xtem, eterm, terminal window, yada yada yada...

you open a terminal and type "su -" then, when prompted, roots password. You now have full access to every file and directory on the system.

so you download your module and firmware to your deskop as yourself, then open a terminal window and type "su -" (and passwd) and then type "cd /home/your_username/Desktop" then "cp *.tar.gz /usr/local" then pick up the instructions on that site where you left off. Just follow them one at a time and you'll be OK

Have fun

Please don't start the same discussion in multiple threads. I've already covered this topic and gave you that link in another thread you started in Software. If you want to continue in persuing help with that problem, don't start it elsewhere in other threads, keep the discussion in the same original thread.

Regards.

You can find his thread about the acx100 drivers here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=124647

Do not discuss it in this topic, stay on topic please.

Regards.

i asked a different question first.. sorry.