On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:08:04PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 06/21/2011 07:49 AM, Ali Bahar wrote: > >this is more of a quick FYI, regarding Staging's r8712u driver. > >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 > is implemented. Your command failed because you ran the command as > an unprivileged user. Notice the differences in the error messages. How is root unprivileged? The shell-prompt shows the user. Right after the failure, I ran the exact same steps, in the same shell, on a different card of the same box. It worked, as it always has. thanks, ali -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
