2009/4/16 David Rosenstrauch :
> Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
[...]
> I finally got my hands dirty and dug into the broadcom wl driver code
> and I see what's causing this behavior. The driver is checking for
> capability CAP_NET_ADMIN, and if that's not set then it's returning a
> EPERM permissi
Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
[...]
Can you
associate manually to an access point?
Not sure what you mean by "manually". I usually use either
networkmanager/knetworkmanager or netcfg for networking, both of which
require root privs.
I
Maurício wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you had any experience using darcs on these
> small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I
> should avoid?
I've had complete success installing arch on Acer Aspire One and MSI
Wind. The latter needed rtl8187se for the wireless card which is readily
available in AUR
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
[...]
>
>> Can you
>> associate manually to an access point?
>
> Not sure what you mean by "manually". I usually use either
> networkmanager/knetworkmanager or netcfg for networking, both of which
> require root privs.
>
I mean using iwc
Thomas Bächler wrote:
David Rosenstrauch schrieb:
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe there's an answer in one of those threads.
I was never able to scan as unprivileged user and I think you are not
supposed to be abl
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Looks like scanning is just a symptom. This appears to be more the crux
of the issue:
[dar...@daroselin ~]$ iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
David Rosenstrauch schrieb:
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe there's an answer in one of those threads.
I was never able to scan as unprivileged user and I think you
Thomas Bächler wrote:
David Rosenstrauch schrieb:
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe there's an answer in one of those threads.
I was never able to scan as unprivileged user and I think you are not
supposed to be abl
David Rosenstrauch schrieb:
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe there's an answer in one of those threads.
I was never able to scan as unprivileged user and I think you are not
supposed to be able to do it! I don't und
André Ramaciotti wrote:
I know this isn't of great help, but in the forum there are lots of
people complaining that iwlist isn't working as non-root user with the
new kernel (2.6.29)
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe
Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
What makes this even more annoying is that apparently some of the
wireless tools I'm using suffer from this restriction as well. So on
the old laptop, kwifimanager and knemo show accurate info about the
current connection (bit rate, link qu
Not really, maybe you can look at the kernel's fbcon driver. fbdev
seems pretty dead, maybe you can look at directfb, wich seemed to be
active until 2008.
Good luck,
Charly
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Maurício wrote:
> Do you know where can I find documentation
> on fbdev? Framebuffer how
I know this isn't of great help, but in the forum there are lots of
people complaining that iwlist isn't working as non-root user with the
new kernel (2.6.29)
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jaime Oyarzun Knittel
wrote:
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> Got a bit of network weirdness going on here.
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Got a bit of network weirdness going on here. 2 different Arch laptops,
> an old one and a new one, with completely different hardware (and also
> i686 vs. x86_64), but both are completely up to date with the latest
> repos. On the old (i686) one, "iwlist scan" works f
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