Hi David, It may be necessary to bring down the interface before use (ifdown ethx) or maybe even rmmod the NIC module. The error message also seems to implicate that the NIC is in use.
Upgrading to beta3 shouldn't be needed. Eric > Hi Cedric, > > > I'm running 3.0-beta1 and I have some 3c509s on one of my machines so I > thought I'd give this a try. When I run 3c5x9setup I get an error. > Seemingly the same error no matter what options I provide (apart from > --help, which "works" OK). For example: > > > firewall# 3c5x9setup --version 3c5x9setup.c:v1.04 3/14/2005 Donald Becker > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html > 3c5x9setup: ioperm() failure: Operation not permitted This program > directly accesses hardware device registers and thus must be run as > 'root'. This program may interfere with current > network traffic when run, and may change the hardware configuration. > > The implication of the error message is that I'm not running as root, but > I am: > > > firewall# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) > > Any thoughts? Should I upgrade to 3.0-beta3 and try again? > > > davidMbrooke > >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I've just packaged those tools (nictools-nopci) for running on >> Bering-uClibc. >> Can someone gives them a try as I don't have such hardware ? >> >> >> For BuC 2.4.x : >> http://leaf.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/leaf/bin/packages/uclibc-0.9/ >> 20/contrib/nictools.lrp >> For BuC 3.x : >> http://leaf.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/leaf/bin/packages/uclibc-0.9/ >> 28/contrib/nictools.lrp >> >> >> Regards, >> Cedric >> >> >> [Further text deleted] >> > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.ntlworld.com > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software > Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
