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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:34:31 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: ali@internetdog.org
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Subject: Re: r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip.
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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