Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop
Ii think that you need to get root password.
You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing... debian cds are very cheap. -hv
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 12:54 AM EEST tina braxton wrote:
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>Thank you for all your ideas. I have now tried all the suggestions for sudo. Result is "permission denied"
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>Tried visudo. It said something about "You have probably been given the usual lecture about ..." Then it let me give myself a password. I thought this would be a root password, so I tried it out by attempting to correct the clock, which is not set for my timezone. It did not work-it said the password was invalid.
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>I also tried the command starting with "dig>". This was an unrecognizable command.
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>Command starting with "cat" was also unrecognizable
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>In answer to the question about what my laptop uses to connect to the internet, it uses Network Manager.
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>Somebody said he has an old laptop, perhaps a vintage like mine, and it does not support wlan networks. I suspect that might be what I have at home.
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