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From: Ali Bahar <ali@internetdog.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip.
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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