upon uninstalling lspci, the error did disappear, but I get this one instead:
lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked. I did look at the isapnp webpage on this error, and it says, well if this happens, it probably won't. Any more ideas? At 02:24 AM 3/31/99 +0000, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:09:55PM -0500, Jayson Baird wrote: >> When using isapnp with lspci it says it tries to find the directory >> /proc/bus/pci/... >> but cannot. when I then go in to make the directory, I get an operation not >> permitted error. It's nuts. Any other way to install PnP devices? or is >> this an easy fix and it's just over my Linux-semi-newbie head? :) > >Wild guess... you'r running a 2.0.x kernel? lspci only works with the >2.1.x/2.2.x kernels. Just uninstall the pciutils package and that error >will disappear. As for /proc/... - /proc is a virtual filesystem, not a >physical one, which makes information from the kernel available. As >such, you can't create new files or directories there (though you can >write new values to a few of them in order to modify the kernel's >behaviour). > >What you probably want to do in order to get your PnP devices configured >is to run pnpdump (as root), in order to create a config-file for >isapnp. Then you'll want to view/update it, in order to be sure that >all the values are correct. Finally, start isapnp and watch the >messages. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird ICQ UIN: 19560609