From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: loody <miloody@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernel Newbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: how to make /dev/random work?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908281112.06100.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a665c760908272341h1b3d21afmda7415282c40261b@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Le Friday 28 August 2009 08:41:41 loody, vous avez écrit :
> Dear all:
> I made linux running on Mips machine.
> Right now I found the /dev/random doesn't work properly, since I use
> "dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/random.txt", it stops working.
> If I use "cat /dev/random", it will not pop out anything.
>
> Is there any setting I forget while make menuconfig or should i add
> another driver for /dev/random such that I can make /dev/random work?
> appreciate your help,
Could it be that your system does not generate enough entropy so you end up in
having nothing going out from /dev/random ? In case your system has very
little entropy, better use /dev/urandom.
--
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email: florian@openwrt.org
Web: http://openwrt.org
IRC: [florian] on irc.freenode.net
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2009-08-28 6:41 how to make /dev/random work? loody
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