On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I'm pretty sure that is not true for Bash. Perhaps for csh or Dash. > > 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 > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
