Sounds like something I can safely remove from modules.conf, anyway.
Thanks. :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:03 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: hw_random error (was RE: [SLUG] reading CDs or DVDs in a
> writer)
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of something else I see come up ... anyone know what the
> > module 'hw_random' is used for?
>
> Looks like a hardware random number generator. Makes some kinds of
> cryptography faster/better, IIRC.
>
> > The kernel responds during boot that RNG is not available and then
> > complains it can't install hw_random. No impact on system performance.
>
> It falls back to software random number generation.
>
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