On 06/21/2011 07:49 AM, Ali Bahar wrote:
Hi Larry,
this is more of a quick FYI, regarding Staging's r8712u driver.
I ran iwconfig on this device in order to put it into Monitor mode, or
even to change its ssid. Both failed because the Set ioctls were not
permitted.
Again, this is more of an FYI, since I don't really use this device.
PPS for the benefit of googlers: the device is the ASUS WL-167G V3
wireless USB adapter.
root@hashbang Tue Jun 21 18:25:09 ~$ lsusb|grep :1791
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0b05:1791 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
root@hashbang Tue Jun 21 18:28:48 ~$ iwconfig wlan2 mode Monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan2 ; Invalid argument.
root@hashbang Tue Jun 21 18:30:06 ~$ iwconfig wlan2 essid "h55m"
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan2 ; Operation not permitted.
root@hashbang Tue Jun 21 18:30:47 ~$ uname -r
3.0.0-rc2-wl_m_Sat12jun2011
root@hashbang Tue Jun 21 18:36:57 ~$
Setting monitor mode is not implemented; however, setting the essid is
implemented. Your command failed because you ran the command as an unprivileged
user. Notice the differences in the error messages.
Larry
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