Issue After Reboot

[Gang Gong Moy]

I'm thinking of trying the key with a newer version of Linux as well. I recently installed Centos 6.1 under a Hyper-V virtual machine; unfortunately,  Hyper-V doesn't support passing through the USB device to the guest OS. I'll find some time soon to install Linux on a physical machine and give it another go.


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 From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman at gmail.com>
To: "entropykey-users at lists.simtec.co.uk" <entropykey-users at lists.simtec.co.uk> 
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Issue After Reboot
 
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Gang Gong Moy <gmoy8888 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I received the entropy key recently and I've been generally impressed by it.
> One minor question that has come up is whether the USB driver fails to
> detect and connect to the device after a reboot.
>
> I'm using Centos 5.4. If I perform a reboot with the device attached to the
> computer, then it doesn't seem to work properly. The 'ekeydctl list' command
> shows nothing running after the reboot and "entropy_avail" is low. On the
> other hand, if I plug in the device after the boot up completes, everything
> works normally.

FWIW I'm using Gentoo Linux and it works fine for me after rebooting.
The Gentoo ekeyd package has some patches, especially to the udev
rules and scripts, maybe you will find something in it that is useful
to solve your problem. (note they have patched it to use
/dev/entropykey/ instead of /var/run/entropykey/)

I'm using linux kernel 3.1.7, ekeyd 1.1.4, udev 171.

Here's the patch:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/ekeyd/files/ekeyd-1.1.4-gentoo.patch

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