Re: hw_random

[oscar <oscar@torroja.dmt.upm.es>]

OK, thank you for your help.

By the way, I have solved that problem with the the Fn+F7: just passing 
then option nolapic to the kernel. As someone tell me before, there were 
no relation between the problems.



Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:17, oscar wrote:
>
>
> > hw_random: RNG not detected
> > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random 
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko): Not such device
>
>
> This just means the system tried to load the hw_random module, but since
> your system doesn't have a built-in hardware rng it can't load it.
>
> Just remove the hw_random entry from /etc/modules*
>
> AFAIK hw_random devices are in some via C3 chips, intel's i810 chipset
> and some P4 chips
>
> Mark