Ii think that you need to get root password. You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing... debian cds are very cheap. -hv ------------------------------ On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 12:54 AM EEST tina braxton wrote: > > >Thank you for all your ideas. I have now tried all the suggestions for >sudo. Result is "permission denied" > >Tried visudo. It said something about "You have probably been given the >usual lecture about ..." Then it let me give myself a password. I thought >this would be a root password, so I tried it out by attempting to correct the >clock, which is not set for my timezone. It did not work-it said the >password was invalid. > >I also tried the command starting with "dig>". This was an unrecognizable >command. > >Command starting with "cat" was also unrecognizable > > >In answer to the question about what my laptop uses to connect to the >internet, it uses Network Manager. > >Somebody said he has an old laptop, perhaps a vintage like mine, and it does >not support wlan networks. I suspect that might be what I have at home. > > > >________________________________
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