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I have the drivers for wireless in Ubuntu 12.0 for my Inspirion 1521, I set the password to "None" to be required whenever I start my computer. However now I cannot run the drivers without a password. Nor can I create one in the settings. How do I run the drivers if I Ubuntu no longer recognizes me as admin?

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    Well, no password, no admin rights, makes sense to me. Not really sure what you've expected. – mikewhatever Mar 19 '13 at 20:38
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    Did you ever set a password? (Before selecting "None.") If so, what happens when you enter that password when prompted to do so to install drivers? Even if you've set things up so you don't need a password to log on, you should still have a password configured. If you do not, or if you don't remember it, you can reset it. See How do I reset a lost administrative password? Please let us know if this doesn't help, since we'll probably close this question as a duplicate of that. – Eliah Kagan Mar 19 '13 at 20:52

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I guess you have to reset your account's password.

Reboot your computer and in the Grub menu, choose recovery mode. In the recovery menu choose root shell.

Remount the partition as read/write with: mount -rw -o remount /

Now you can reset your password with: passwd username. change username with the name for your account.

Reboot your computer and you're done.

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