pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error

[John Baldwin]

On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote:
> Good call; I do in fact have securelevel enabled.  I would like to keep it
> enabled if possible.  Is there any way to get to /dev/pci while in
> securelevel 2, or do I have to temporarily drop the securelevel through
> sysctl?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

Currently there is no way to get to /dev/pci with securelevel raised
though there is a PR about it I believe that might have some patches
and comments about how to make it work.  I don't think you can drop the
securelevel via sysctl.

> William Michael Grim
> Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
> Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept.
> Phone: (217) 341-6552
> Email: wgrim at siue.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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 at snow 09:12:42 root]# pciconf -lv
>> > pciconf: /dev/pci: Operation not permitted
>> > 
>> > [root at 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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