Re: Terminal question/USB wireless

In article <slrng0v2n9.dde.foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ian Gregory <foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-04-23, The New guy <noemailhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <noemailhere-FCD543.13125923042008@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
The New guy <noemailhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I rarely use Terminal but today seemed odd. I tried to type in my
password (same one I use for installs) after inputing su and it wasn't
accepted. Does su demand a different password? I tried all the
possible password combos (the caps lock wasn't on) and no luck. Even
tried su do and no luck. ???

Well I found this page:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010324095804436
then used this: sudo passwd root
and all seems fine. I wonder how it got changed?

If you were in a non-Admin account and wanted to gain admin privileges
using su you should have typed "su username" where username is the name
of an Admin account. Typing "su" on its own would try to su to root but
the root account is not enabled by default, and shouldn't be enabled
unless you know what you are doing - and it sounds like you don't:-)

You're right - this is all new. Anyway I just reset the password and
its ok. The reason I was there was I'm trying to install a Gigafast USB
802.11b/g wireless dongle on 10.4.11 to work on an Intel Mini. It uses
the ZyDAS driver apparently. Its supposed to show up under Other at the
bottom of System Preferences. But it doesn't. I was reading about
wireless and Macs and it seems challenging to get a non-Airport device
to work. Or have others had luck in this area I wonder?
.

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