From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: ali@internetdog.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:34:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0154B7.2000204@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622010057.GA12123@internetdog.org>
On 06/21/2011 08:00 PM, Ali Bahar 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
>
>> 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.
I have no idea what you are doing wrong, but I get the following:
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.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-22 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 14:47 [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver Larry Finger
2011-05-03 15:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-03 20:03 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-04 17:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-04 17:20 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-04 18:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-04 19:15 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-03 15:59 ` Walter Goldens
2011-05-03 16:45 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-03 20:19 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-05-03 20:33 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-03 20:38 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-05-03 20:56 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-03 21:09 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-05-03 21:35 ` Larry Finger
2011-06-21 12:49 ` r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip Ali Bahar
2011-06-21 22:08 ` Larry Finger
2011-06-22 1:00 ` Ali Bahar
2011-06-22 2:03 ` Julian Calaby
2011-06-22 2:12 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-06-22 2:46 ` Ali Bahar
2011-06-22 2:39 ` Ali Bahar
2011-06-22 2:34 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-06-22 2:56 ` Ali Bahar
2011-06-22 3:09 ` Larry Finger
2011-06-22 3:17 ` Ali Bahar
2011-06-27 7:23 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-02 17:09 ` Larry Finger
2011-07-03 1:06 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-03 1:24 ` Larry Finger
2011-07-03 1:47 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] staging: r8712u: Most return-values changed from -1 to Ali Bahar
2011-07-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: r8712u: Most return-values changed from -1 to proper errno macros Ali Bahar
2011-07-15 21:00 ` Larry Finger
2011-07-16 3:21 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-16 9:23 ` Kalle Valo
2011-07-16 10:50 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-16 11:44 ` Kalle Valo
2011-07-16 11:55 ` Ali Bahar
2011-07-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: r8712u: checkpatch errors: trailing whitespace on 2 lines Ali Bahar
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