Re: wireless linux driver problems

hi thtere .
well thanks for the fast reply
I finally got it to work what i did was to install "WIcd" and i am
guessing this fixed the problem ...
thamks again
Gipsy
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 15:28 -0700, debian wrote:
<snip>

insmod: error inserting 'ieee80211_crypt-rtl.ko': -1 Operation not
permitted
insmod: error inserting 'ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.ko': -1 Operation not
permitted
insmod: error inserting 'ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl.ko': -1 Operation
not permitted
insmod: error inserting 'ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl.ko': -1 Operation
not permitted
insmod: error inserting 'ieee80211-rtl.ko': -1 Operation not permitted
insmod: error inserting 'r8180.ko': -1 Operation not permitted
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
chris@ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_26.1027.0823.2007$ sudo ./wlan0up
[sudo] password for chris:
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
chris@ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_26.1027.0823.2007$
______________________________________________________________________
</snip>

you might try running ./wlan0up as root:

ex: sudo ./wlan0up

note: usually, when it says "operation not permmitted", it usually means
that the program is trying to do something that a restricted user is not
permitted to do.

--cj




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