On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:09:28PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

On 06/21/2011 09:56 PM, Ali Bahar wrote:

quoted

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