Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:36:51 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sean_bruno@yahoo.com> To: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: random(4) update causes mips compile fail | mips boot fail Message-ID: <1378579011.1588.16.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <24DB010A-F374-491B-9203-FDDD7EA14A51@grondar.org> References: <1378572186.1588.5.camel@localhost> <24DB010A-F374-491B-9203-FDDD7EA14A51@grondar.org>
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--=-hU/mB2HgkS3Ir1v5UqfL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 18:39 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: > On 7 Sep 2013, at 17:43, Sean Bruno <sean_bruno@yahoo.com> wrote: > > trying to enable random on my DIR-825 kernconf I get this on boot: > >=20 > > 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 >=20 > Please make a change to sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c; >=20 > Around line 82, please change from ".seeded =3D 0" to ".seeded =3D 1". >=20 > If that works, then your report above with the "Entropy device is blockin= g." > is trying to read random numbers before /dev/random is secure; this is a = BAD > security problem.=20 >=20 > M Looks like it does indeed work if that is set to 1. =20 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. Sean --=-hU/mB2HgkS3Ir1v5UqfL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJSK3JCAAoJEBkJRdwI6BaH3wsH/1ogmPP+dI3smv1RcFfAJSZh 8JjJter9f/YFmwdlCz5Qz4dl9wqMksbRI9pV43rmRni75I2YydPxI/y9gpVMqGRJ Sq0KALG95seQ56bdOQ3Apuxx715zyahKgveXVof0hZ8se+kXcpQv5P65owWxDI2g lN1+lTw7MswBSMxCjTTRYD/LYGG8watMhUw3pwGdD/le0Hn0liUyUZ0KU+t0YeXx T9tJ+fj3WEXcUQ9j4hkUO5fSatgVfcx8/H+NtTcro8RVwC4iCeFnmmtqJSh5RCiM FpXd4YDXLCjlEjDwG9ChL6+p5pJDk63fbc3jnD9RwK4ScEAu/ahOZIUK+EcvAm8= =1DYH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hU/mB2HgkS3Ir1v5UqfL--
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