Ali, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:00, Ali Bahar <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > How is root unprivileged? The shell-prompt shows the user. In general, root prompts have a '#' at the end of the prompt, this one has a '$' which is indicative of a non-privileged user. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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