Re: New update about mbuff

[Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David J. Christini wrote:

> 	Now that I'm using mbuff instead of having to reserve part of
> my RAM at boot-time via lilo.conf, I guess I no longer have to run my
> stuff as root, right? But, when I try to insmod as a user, I have
> problems such as:

See updated README about setting permisions to /dev/mbuff

> 
> 	/sbin/insmod rtl_sched
> 	/lib/modules/2.2.14-rtl2.2/misc/rtl_sched.o: create_module: Operation not
> 	permitted                 

copy mbuff.o to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
run depmod -a   (you will get a warning, ignore it, this is because mbuff is
compiled with debugging)
Add:
alias char-major-10-254 mbuff
to /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules
restart kerneld

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Tomek