hw_random: RNG not detected

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at redhat.com
Tue Oct 11 09:35:15 CDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:27:55PM -0700, David Sparks wrote:
> When my 1850s boot I notice that there doesn't seem to be hardware random
> number support.  Is this true?  From dmesg:
> 
> hw_random: RNG not detected

Yes, it's true.  RNGs are only widely available on VIA CPUs.  Intel and AMD
motherboard chipsets -used- to have RNGs, but no longer do.

	Jeff




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