On 7 Sep 2013, at 19:36, Sean Bruno <sean_br...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 18:39 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: >> On 7 Sep 2013, at 17:43, Sean Bruno <sean_br...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> trying to enable random on my DIR-825 kernconf I get this on boot: >>> >>> Configuration file: /etc/cfg/hostapd.wlan0.conf >>> Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:00:88:88:22:22 and ssid "TESTBRUNO" >>> Entropy device is blocking >> >> Please make a change to sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c; >> >> Around line 82, please change from ".seeded = 0" to ".seeded = 1". >> >> If that works, then your report above with the "Entropy device is blocking." >> is trying to read random numbers before /dev/random is secure; this is a BAD >> security problem. >> >> M > > > Looks like it does indeed work if that is set to 1. > > This "DIR-825" config, should be loading random as a module, not built > into the kernel due to size limitations of the kernel on this board.
Hmm. I'll set it back to 1, but this is technically a security issue. Thanks for the report back, and sorry for the hassles! M -- Mark R V Murray
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