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Unknown SU pasword problem

Asked by danyk

Hi,

I've recently decided to switch to Linux and therefore installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my P-III laptop. It works great, but I have a problem.

I have a Belkin USB Wi-Fi card (F5D7050B) which has to be run through NDISWRAPPER. I read the article about it and whenever I try the SUDO command specified there, I get asked for (what I presume is) the SU password. Now, I don't remember getting asked to pick a pasword for the SU account while installing Ubuntu, so I'd like to know if there's a default password, or some other way to use the SUDO command.

Thanks,

-Dany

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

The password you use for sudo is the password you used when you logged in with you account (your user account).

More help with sudo can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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Wolf Canis (wolf-canis) said : 		#2

Hello Dany,
that isn't the root passwort, but the password which you entered for your account, because during the installation only one user are installed. I assume that you didn't create more users. The command sudo applies to to users, whom are in the admin group, if you have no more user created, than your account is the admin account.

Mr Canis

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danyk (dany-c) said : 		#3

Hi and thanks for the quick response.

I entered my current password and I got a line saying that the command was not found.

Could it be that NDISWRAPPER isn't in the system?

Thanks,

-Dany

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Dean Sas (dsas) said : 		#4

As far as I remember ndiswrapper is not installed by default, it is installable through add/remove programs or if not synaptic though.

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danyk (dany-c) said : 		#5

Under which category within the synaptic screen?

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Best Nori Tama (nori.tama) said : 		#6

Hi Dany

check as follows

$ sudo apt-get update

$ apt-cache search ndiswrapper

and you'll find following packages

ndiswrapper-common - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper

then install them using

$ apt-get install ndiswrapper-...

good luck!

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danyk (dany-c) said : 		#7

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