Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:33:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: William Michael Grim <wgrim@siue.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error Message-ID: <XFMail.20031231123309.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10312310916470.24534-100000@cougar.isg.siue.edu>
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On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote: > Hey! > > I have 5.1-RELEASE installed on my system, and I've never needed to do a > "pciconf -lv" to probe the system before. However, I tried doing it > earlier today after logging in through SSH and doing "su -" to become > superuser. I received this error: > > [root@snow 09:12:42 root]# pciconf -lv > pciconf: /dev/pci: Operation not permitted > > [root@snow 09:15:41 root]# ls -l /dev/pci > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 251, 0 Nov 2 05:09 /dev/pci > > So, as you can see, the permissions are correct. Perhaps I don't have > something compiled into my kernel? I can attach a dmesg and kernel config > if it's necessary. > > Thanks in advance. Do you have securelevel raised? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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