Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:01:47 -0600
From: serge@hallyn.com
To: Claude Frantz <claude@pc0312b.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: permission denied while load kernel module using modprobe
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Quoting Claude Frantz (claude@pc0312b.rz.unibw-muenchen.de):
> Hello !
>
> As user "root" I'm trying to load the ath_pci module from madwifi using
> the "modprobe" command, which is the recommanded way. But I get the
> following diag in the log:
>
> modprobe: WARNING: Could not open 
> '/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/net/ath_hal.ko': Permission denied modprobe: 
> WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/net/wlan.ko': 
> Permission denied modprobe: FATAL: Could not open 
> '/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/net/ath_rate_sample.ko': Permission denied 
> kernel: Error loading module "ath_rate_sample"
>
>
> Fedora 7 using kernel 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 as you can see above.
> All components in /lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/net/ have the permission 
> -rwxr-xr-x and the directory itself has drwxr-xr-x 
> Which permission is wrong here ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
> Claude

Just a few possibilities,

1. could you do 'id -Z' and 'ls -lZ /lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/net/'
   to see if selinux is involved?
2. most commonly on my own laptop i've seen this happen due to fs
   corruption...

-serge
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