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Old 03-31-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Computer unable to recognize 'modprobe'

I am running Fedora 7 and trying to get madwifi up and running. The documentation for it says "To load the driver module, type:"
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modprobe ath_pci
I tried to do that, and here is what happened:
Code:
modprobe ath_pci
bash: modprobe: command not found
What do I do from here?

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You need to be root in order to load modules. You should switch to root using the "su -" command. If you just use su, then you need to enter the full path e.g. /sbin/modprobe.
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Thanks a lot. That looks like it worked!
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