From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GUYFS-00084h-2I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:35:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k930Y1pd007988; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:34:01 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer1.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k930RAke009981 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:27:13 GMT Received-SPF: none Received: from storage.rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k930R8ou016772 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:27:08 +1300 Received: by storage.rout.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 81) id 4E1574C891; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:27:07 +1300 (NZDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? Received: from 219.89.81.142 (auth. user nick@localhost) by rout.dyndns.org with HTTP; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:27:07 -1200 X-IlohaMail-Blah: nick@localhost X-IlohaMail-Method: mail() [mem] X-IlohaMail-Dummy: moo X-Mailer: IlohaMail/0.8.14 (On: rout.dyndns.org) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0610021322n5433ebabscc85d095f62236bb@mail.gmail.com> From: "Nick Rout" Bounce-To: "Nick Rout" Errors-To: "Nick Rout" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:27:07 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k930RAke009981 X-Archives-Salt: 002cb7ee-f3ea-405c-a0b1-4d1ac65a9c35 X-Archives-Hash: 4453633320747e41958a12c62b0fe0f0 On 10/2/2006, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >On 10/2/06, Devon Miller wrote: >> 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 >> > >Thanks guys. I should have thought of sudo myself. I don't use it >much. With your help I'm now able to do what I needed to do. > >Thanks, >Mark I wonder if this could be avoided by using the madwifi[-ng] driver and avoiding the windows thing altogether? I found it worked well, as does the freebsd kernel driver. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list