[Wlug] Getting the Edimax ew-7108pcg working on Xubuntu 6.06 LTS

Keith Wright kwright at keithdiane.us
Fri Jan 4 00:26:48 EST 2008


> From: "Adam Keck" <ghostis at gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks very much for your thoughtful response ;).

Are you sure that's the correct emoticon?
Sometimes people say ";)" when they mean ":-/" or "(;=)".

> Regarding the sudo command, 

You said sudo, I didn't.

> she uses this laptop for her academics and, thus,
> expects it to "just work."

I don't know what you mean by "just work".  You say you
have already downloaded drivers, compiled and installed,
and modified /etc/modules.conf.

What is the objection to adding to a boot-time shell
script?  I am not saying she should do it.
You do it and don't tell.

> On Jan 3, 2008 8:13 PM, Keith Wright <kwright at keithdiane.us> wrote:
> > > From: "Adam Keck" <ghostis at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > I can only bring the interface up via running "sudo ifup ra0".  My
> > > wife's probably not going to go for that ;).
> >
> > but why would your wife object to

  you, Adam Keck

> > putting "ifup ra0" in one of those shell files that
> > get run by root when you boot?

Like maybe you put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

  -- Keith


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