On 06/21/2011 09:56 PM, 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.
I have no idea what you are doing wrong, but I get the following:
Again, the test procedure was identical, and deliberately so.
This was all just FYI; I was just providing some data. Thank you for
your reply, and for your ongoing work.
finger@larrylap:~/wireless-testing-new> sudo iwconfig wlan9 essid junk
finger@larrylap:~/wireless-testing-new>
The above is with r8712u running on wireless-testing 3.0-rc4.
I'd tried 3.0.0-rc3-wl_m_Sun19jun2011 (ie wireless rc3, built on
Sunday) as well. Same wext and OS, on a different box.
Since you are rewriting this driver, I won't try to dig into this on
my end.
I am not rewriting this driver in the immediate future, thus you need to find
out what is wrong.
As I said earlier, your error certainly looks like a privilege problem. Adding
to what I posted earlier, I get
finger@larrylap:~> iwconfig wlan9 essid test
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan9 ; Operation not permitted.
finger@larrylap:~> sudo iwconfig wlan9 essid test
finger@larrylap:~>
As you can see, my unprivileged version gets exactly the error message that you
reported and the one as root works.
Larry
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