gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Having compiled my kernel with LKM included (yes, I'm sure; modstat
> returns, obviously without any modules right now... but modstat would
> return an error if LKM weren't enabled, no?), I had really hoped the
> examples in /usr/share/lkm would work. But they don't:
> 
> cygnus:syscall/module# uname -a                                            [57]
> NetBSD cygnus 1.5_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (SCINTILA) #2: Mon Jul 24 15:58:46 PDT 2000     root@cygnus:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/SCINTILA macppc
> cygnus:syscall/module# whoami                                              [58]
> root
> cygnus:syscall/module# pwd                                                 [59]
> /usr/share/lkm/syscall/module
> cygnus:syscall/module# make load                                           [60]
> modload -o newsyscall -enewsyscall combined.o
> modload: can't reserve memory: Operation not permitted
> *** Error code 9

i don't know if this is the problem or not, but to load a module you
either have to be in single-user mode or else have "options INSECURE" in
your kernel config...

i hope this helps some.

-colin