On 30/12/15 04:22 PM, Peter King wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:15:58PM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote: >> On 30/12/15 10:03 AM, Peter King wrote: >>> Now to figure out how to get root, or at least sudo... odd, because >>> while it tells me the default user "linaro" is not in the sudoers group, >>> in /etc/group "linaro" *is* listed as belonging to the sudo group. Hmmm. >>> >> >> Weird. So, if you run `groups` sudo is listed as one of the groups? >> >> Is the sudo package installed? (`dpkg --list | grep sudo`) Weird that >> there'd be >> a sudo group set up if the package wasn't installed. > > Got it. There was a missing "%" in the sudoers file, so it wasn't seeing > "sudo" as a group but as a user. Fixed it, and now I have sudo working. >
Ah, great, glad that worked. > The last major hurdle is to try to connect to the internet, which is tricky > because I only have wireless access here and the Roseapple Pi seems not to > recognize my wireless dongle -- though again maybe I'm just clueless under > Debian, since the dongle has a RealTek rtl8192 chip, and there are modules > listed for that in /var/modules/: rtlwifi.ko, rtl8192c.ko, and rtl8192.cu. > [...] I'm not familiar with that particular wireless device, but from this page on the Debian wiki, it looks like it requires non-free drivers, and thus the Debian non-free repository. If you didn't specifically install those rtl files above from a download from the non-free repository, but rather they were installed by default, I'm imagine they're different drivers, not the non-free ones. Anyways, seems like you might find an answer here: https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x Though, ThinkPenguin sells inexpensive wireless adapters that don't require non-free drivers: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux e.g. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-g-usb-adapter https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb HTH Blaise --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
