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From: "Devon Miller" <devon.c.miller@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?
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emerge app-admin/sudo
Edit /etc/sudoers and add:
username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0
Where username is his login. To run it:
sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
dcm
On 10/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (I
> think) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC:
>
> 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>
> The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some
> reason this NIC seems to go off line quite a bit - maybe once a day.
> I'm assuming that this is caused by the Windows driver & ndiswrapper
> having some sort of problem that is probably light years beyond my
> ability to debug. However running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart always
> seems to get it going again.
>
> How can I set up the system to allow my son to run this command
> himself as a user? It appears that the script itself is runnable by a
> user, but when we try it I get a message that only root can run init
> scripts.
>
> Sector9 ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/net.*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 16 10:14 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30341 Sep 16 10:27 /etc/init.d/net.lo
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 29 11:31 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo
> Sector9 ~ #
>
> Is there an easy way to make this one script runnable by my son so
> that when I'm not around he can get things going again?
>
> On the other hand if there is an Open Source Linux driver for this
> card I'd love to install that but I don't know of one.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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emerge app-admin/sudo<br>
<br>
Edit /etc/sudoers and add:<br>
<br>
username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0<br>
<br>
Where username is his login. To run it:<br>
sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart<br>
<br>
dcm<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Knecht</b> <<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br> We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (I<br>think) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC:<br><br>03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G<br>802.11abg NIC (rev 01)<br><br> The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some
<br>reason this NIC seems to go off line quite a bit - maybe once a day.<br>I'm assuming that this is caused by the Windows driver & ndiswrapper<br>having some sort of problem that is probably light years beyond my<br>
ability to debug. However running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart always<br>seems to get it going again.<br><br> How can I set up the system to allow my son to run this command<br>himself as a user? It appears that the script itself is runnable by a
<br>user, but when we try it I get a message that only root can run init<br>scripts.<br><br>Sector9 ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/net.*<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 16 10:14 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30341 Sep 16 10:27 /etc/init.d/net.lo
<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 29 11:31 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo<br>Sector9 ~ #<br><br> Is there an easy way to make this one script runnable by my son so<br>that when I'm not around he can get things going again?
<br><br> On the other hand if there is an Open Source Linux driver for this<br>card I'd love to install that but I don't know of one.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mark<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org
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