On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 28.08.2009 um 08:41 schrieb loody: >> >> 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. > > Maybe, it just blocks do to missing entropy.
Adding that, try to type randomly on keyboard, read files, send packets to network and so on. Also try to compare that by accessing /dev/urandom. I guess it will be just fine. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
