Subject: Re: LKMs not working...
To: None <dmaddox@scsn.net>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/27/1996 10:58:24
>From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root%rhiannon@pain.lcs.mit.edu>
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:38:48 -0500 (EST)
> I haven't tried to use any LKMs in quite a while (since before the
>1.1 upgrade), but I decided to play around the Amiga audio LKM yesterday,
>and, in the process, discovered that LKMs simply don't work on my machine
>anymore, and I cannot figure out what the problem is... Any attempt to
>load an LKM with modload fails with 'operation not permitted'.
Last October a check was added to the LKM code that disables most
operations if securelevel > 0. You can add 'options INSECURE' to your
kernel config to disable securelevel, or you can load all LKMs from
rc.local (before securelevel becomes 1).
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