Re: [Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955

2011-01-18 Thread Nix
On 19 Dec 2010, Stuart Henderson uttered the following: > On 2010-12-18, Nix wrote: >> >> Is this a bad time to point out that with you >> could have had a very paranoid hardware RNG with known-working Linux >> support? :) >> >> (yes, it probably is, I know.) >> >> I ha

Re: [Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Norin
Hi, Well to answer my own question since noone else did ;) The current hifn kernel driver only supports 32-bit and ubuntu and possibly even other distros standard 32-bit kernel supports PAE which sets dma_addr_t to a u64 and the driver check the size of dma_addr_t and therefore it doesnt load.

Re: [Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955

2010-12-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-12-18, Nix wrote: > > Is this a bad time to point out that with you > could have had a very paranoid hardware RNG with known-working Linux > support? :) > > (yes, it probably is, I know.) > > I have one on my net5501 and it works perfectly, also feeding entropy t

Re: [Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955

2010-12-17 Thread Nix
On 13 Dec 2010, Peter Norin said: > I have some problem with entropy on a server where I need to generate > a bunch of asymetric keypairs using gpg. Since I would like to do some > generation automatically I cant really do mouse movement or random > keystrokes, so thats why I instinctively thought

[Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Norin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi list, First sorry if this is out of scope for this maillist, I just joined so I don't really know :) I have some problem with entropy on a server where I need to generate a bunch of asymetric keypairs using gpg. Since I would like to do some g