2009/4/16 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote: [...] > I finally got my hands dirty and dug into the broadcom wl driver code > and I see what's causing this behavior. The driver is checking for > capability CAP_NET_ADMIN, and if that's not set then it's returning a > EPERM permission error on every ioctl wireless call. So > all the driver connection info calls done by non-root users fail with > permissioning errors. [...] > Also I'm not sure if/how it might be possible to set CAP_NET_ADMIN > for a non-root user. But I'm kinda at the limits of my tech knowledge > here, and wasn't able to google up more info, so I think I'm just going > to have to leave this unfixed unfortunately. It looks like there is a pam module pam_cap which can be used to set roles on users, but i havent checked if Arch has it. Some info i found: man 7 capabilities http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/02/18/capabilties-and-pam http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html Especially second URL above seems to give quite good info on capabilities. HTH, HAND. mvg, Guus
