On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:22:52AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
> Trying not to sound like a noob, but ... how do I set it ? I hope not by 
> recompiling my kernel which is something I loathe to do on a production 
> machine, you understand - I haven't even upgraded to 2.6.

Afraid so. It might be already set, or there might be a module option
to turn it on - which kernel are you using and which NIC driver?

> I looked at sysctl -a, but nothing looked related. Also I hear that 
> unlike SCSI, IDE drives do supposed to contribute to entropy, but while 
> I do have an IDE drive there doesn't seem to be any entropy generated 
> from it - is it possible to turn this on as well ?

Same answer I'm afraid. Which IDE module?

Cheers, 
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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