Using SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional

When I said I had no problems copying the e1000 module sources tarball using a floppy, I wasn’t completely honest. I had to format the floppy using KFloppy first, and that failed with a permission denied message on /dev/fd0h1440. That particular file was owned by root and group disk, but I wasn’t a member of that group. I think this was a bug, but it was easily solved: $ su - root Password: # gpasswd -a diederic disk Then I had to log out and in again. The e1000 module, however, didn’t seem to load automatically at boot, despite my using YaST to configure that. $ ping bender ping: unknown host: bender $ lsmod | grep e1000 bash: lsmod: command not found $ /sbin/lsmod | grep e1000 $ sudo /sbin/modprobe e1000 Password: diederic is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. So: /sbin was not in my $PATH I was not in the sudoers file The e1000 module was not there I haven’t looked back at bash since I found the fish shell, but this is what I remembered: $ echo 'export…

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