[wplug] Need help but somewhat offtopic

[Steven Leach]

By default root is disabled so su won't work, you can just use sudo 
with the administrator account's password.  You can enable root if you 
like however and then su will work fine.


On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Robert E. Coutch wrote:

> That's what we're trying now.
> We gave Verizon the old " Comcast said we could get a free modem" 
> story and I
> think they're (Verizon) going to give him a freebee to keep him happy.
>
> I guess OS-X isn't like Linux or FreeBSD where we can just load a 
> generic USB
> modem module and play with some conf files.
>
> BTW - It asked for a password when I tried to su from a terminal 
> window.
> Did I need to SU and if so, what's the password? It never asked for a 
> root
> password during setup.
>
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 06:50 pm, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
>> It doesn't look like speedstream provides drivers for either MacOSX or
>> MacOS, it's just Windows drivers.  You probably should see if you can
>> get an ethernet DSL modem.
>>
>> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 17:29, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> My father-in-law just purchased an iMac running OS-X Panther.
>>>
>>> We've got everything going except for his USB DSL modem.
>>> There are no drivers for apple for his modem (SpeedStream 4060 USB 
>>> ADSL).
>>>
>>> I'm not too familiar with OS-X.
>>>
>>> Can we load a module for a usb dsl modem or manually configure his 
>>> system
>>> to recognize it?
>>>
>>> He's in a pinch as it looks like he will need a new modem that is
>>> ethernet or has apple drivers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for the offtopic - thanks for any help,
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S. - I know some of you WPLUG'ers are Apple people so that's why I
>>> posted this. I did google like crazy before posting this request. 
>>> Also
>>> tried Apple's support site. No luck !
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