Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:58:37 +0100 (CET) | | From | Tim Schmielau <> | | Subject | Re: randomness - compaq smart array driver |
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Proescholdt, timo wrote:
> I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness. > I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output. [...] > I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this > topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere . > Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
Robert Love did a patch to let network devices contribute to the random pool. Look at ftp://www.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/ or http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
Tim
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