On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:09:28PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 06/21/2011 09:56 PM, Ali Bahar wrote: > >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. OK. > 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. I know. 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