Re: /dev/random broken?

H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01T04:16:18Z

Followup to: <3EFE23A5.2000608@libero.it>
By author: "Luca T." <luca-t@libero.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
> i am not sure if this is a kernel/module problem but so it seems to me.
> My computer is an AMD 2000+ with an ABIT motherboard, my kernel version
> is 2.4.21-0.13mdk (but i tried it with 2.4.21-0.18mdk too and it doesn't
> work either).
>

In addition to the other posts in this thread, you may want to load
the hwrng driver and run rngd.

-hpa
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