From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.145]:45579 "EHLO ey-out-1920.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492499AbZH1JMJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:09 +0200 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so356842eye.52 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:12:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=mde6ccVmM1eG7sKYtNL9zcgb/P6DStnRvyvSB2iJxMI=; b=wzrWFmiRiW4VfFuJf3X9Q2xgnJTtT5VCDj8SHp9pq3AUAjwshpX9VNBq+yG6WJa5Oj qglinSUSUTwsR7byNJXswaWDJ3D2pJLvrqGsfuqt1Fc9zp7cFHlh1tdFx67dIao0Imdr SNRhY2i/QyCHjvRJEgeHQGMrrxhc0tsYUjdqI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=Yejy7QKaqemxpTofXCtjZIhDJBSlC6RhBG3Gu8XN4ju071UimuHIvqeEUXxEJdCSRv LwrmpEpMrkPYUQG72NgODrAp6ElUgxxuX01I7Rg2X5Nji4APf298FZLQDUMs6229Qo4r gbgiHryt7YVzkMu93bNgFFvJn3TGT1xdKrbho= Received: by 10.210.206.12 with SMTP id d12mr947161ebg.32.1251450728702; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florian.lab.openpattern.org (lab.openpattern.org [82.240.16.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm1541755eye.20.2009.08.28.02.12.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Florian Fainelli To: loody Subject: Re: how to make /dev/random work? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Kernel Newbies , Linux MIPS Mailing List References: <3a665c760908272341h1b3d21afmda7415282c40261b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a665c760908272341h1b3d21afmda7415282c40261b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908281112.06100.florian@openwrt.org> Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 23954 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: florian@openwrt.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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 -------------------------------