RE: pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:33:09 -0500 (EST)
To: William Michael Grim <wgrim@siue.edu>

    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? 

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