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. But if you choose a 32-bit _NON_ PAE kernel it works fine. Cheers Peter On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Peter Norin wrote: > > 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 generation > automatically I cant really do mouse movement or random keystrokes, so thats > why I instinctively thought about and hardware rng. I know there is a option > of making keys with weak entropy this is not an option for me. > > So, I recently bought a vpn1401 card just cause of the rng on the card. > > I'm currently running linux, ubuntu to be specific and there seems to be > support for the rng in the kernel and the card is recognized while doing a > lspci, however I'm a bit confused how I should get the rng to "feed" > /dev/random (afaik thats what gpg use). > > I did take a look at rng-tools/utils which supposedly should do this but > seems to be for specific cards/mobos ? > > Any pointers would be awesome. > > TIA > Peter
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