Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 21:31 -0400, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The PATH variable seems to already have a value in it:
> > 
> > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> 
> I should hope so. $PATH is where the Shell looks for commands to
> execute. It's a list of directories to look in.
> 
> lspci and friends are in /sbin (or sometimes in /usr/sbin). /sbin/lspci
> etc. will run them. Or do this in .bash_profile:
> 
> PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

Better is 

        PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

There are some programs with the same name in both /bin and /sbin
and /usr/bin and /usr/sbin that behave differently.  If you are a
regular user, you want the /bin and /usr/bin ones, not the /sbin
and /usr/sbim ones.




> 
> poc
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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