Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:56:23 +0800
From: Ali Bahar <ali@internetdog.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8712u driver for the rtl8192su chip.
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> >>>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.

> I have no idea what you are doing wrong, but I get the following:

Again, the test procedure was identical, and deliberately so.

This was all just FYI; I was just providing some data. Thank you for
your reply, and for your ongoing work.

 
> 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.

I'd tried 3.0.0-rc3-wl_m_Sun19jun2011 (ie wireless rc3, built on
Sunday) as well. Same wext and OS, on a different box.

Since you are rewriting this driver, I won't try to dig into this on
my end.

thanks,
ali