pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error

[John Baldwin]

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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