Hi David, That may be related to the grsec patch which is applied to the kernel and may prevent this kind of ops. I've encountered a similar problem when trying to make isapnptools to work. If that is the case, I'm not sure we can do something at all. I will investigate a bit.
Thanks for the report, Cedric 2006/11/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > 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: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
