On Sunday, 13 ×February 2005 11:29, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 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?
eepro100 on 2.4.25
> > 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?
ahmm.. the standard one ?
I got a VIA VT82C586 controller (on board) which lspcidrake thinks
should be supported using via82cxxx which doesn't appear to be a valid
module in my kernel module list (probably compiled into the kernel ?).
--
Oded
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