cannot run wifi radar in " Jaunty"

[steve woods]

Am wanting to use Belkin wireless adaptor. Tried to run wifi radar and get message "Failed to execute child process "su-to-root" (No such file or directory)"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[lsw (lwasserm-sdf)]

I can confirm this behavior. Apparently the installation scripts for wifi-radar in jaunty were not modified to work with a system using sudo rather than su. The menu entry can be modified so that wifi-radar will run from the menu. Use the menu editor, select the wifi-radar entry, and click on properties. Edit the command field to read "gksudo wifi-radar" (without quotes).

[o18rules (o18rules)]

I'm sorry to bother you but can you explain that to me i've only just got ubuntu which i'm running in wubi which I have to say beats windows but the only problem I have is I cant get a connection so can you please explain what he/you said in terms I can understand maybe step by step instructions or a youtube video of someone doing it?

thank you in advance

[steve woods (steve-woods54)]

thanks very much i will give this a try.

Steve

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:45 AM, lsw <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can confirm this behavior. Apparently the installation scripts for
> wifi-radar in jaunty were not modified to work with a system using sudo
> rather than su. The menu entry can be modified so that wifi-radar will
> run from the menu. Use the menu editor, select the wifi-radar entry, and
> click on properties. Edit the command field to read "gksudo wifi-radar"
> (without quotes).
>
> --
> cannot run wifi radar in " Jaunty"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368805
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “wifi-radar” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Am wanting to use Belkin wireless adaptor. Tried to run wifi radar and get
> message "Failed to execute child process "su-to-root" (No such file or
> directory)"
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
>

[steve woods (steve-woods54)]

hi
This is the problem.
 i had been reading about UBUNTU and, feeling bored one day downloaded
XUBUNTU and installed it on an old desk top pc which i was going to strip
down for spares, better to give it a try on this, rather than screw up my
new pc.
I plugged in my BELKIN network adaptor and i was amazed to see that it was
detected and connected to the internet instantly. Great!
I played around with this version for a day or two and found that this was
lacking in some features, compared with Jaunty jackalope.
I installed jaunty over Xubuntu, and to my dismay found that it could not
detect my belkin adaptor. strange??
I checked out some forums and found out about wifi radar. this application
is supposed to detect wireless adaptors. unfortunately the program will not
run on this version due to a bug. I am new to Linux based operating systems,
so to start making changes to software is alien to me.
 I thing the simplest solution will be to re install XUBUNTU.
Sorry i cant be of more help,

best regards

Steve

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, o18rules <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm sorry to bother you but can you explain that to me i've only just
> got ubuntu which i'm running in wubi which I have to say beats windows
> but the only problem I have is I cant get a connection so can you please
> explain what he/you said in terms I can understand maybe step by step
> instructions or a youtube video of someone doing it?
>
> thank you in advance
>
> --
> cannot run wifi radar in " Jaunty"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368805
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “wifi-radar” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Am wanting to use Belkin wireless adaptor. Tried to run wifi radar and get
> message "Failed to execute child process "su-to-root" (No such file or
> directory)"
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
>

[Sean Robinson (seankrobinson)]

This is fixed in Karmic.