Return-path: Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:54345 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757751Ab1FVCDr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:03:47 -0400 Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so282456vxb.19 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:03:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110622010057.GA12123@internetdog.org> References: <776913.88107.qm@web161609.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4DC0312A.4040303@lwfinger.net> <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> <4DC06BF3.6070208@lwfinger.net> <20110621124954.GA8462@internetdog.org> <4E011644.3070906@lwfinger.net> <20110622010057.GA12123@internetdog.org> From: Julian Calaby Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:03:26 +1000 Message-ID: (sfid-20110622_040351_206681_F65E3722) Subject: Re: r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip. To: ali@internetdog.org Cc: Larry Finger , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ali, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:00, 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 > > 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. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/