<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "entropykey-users@lists.simtec.co.uk" <entropykey-users@lists.simtec.co.uk> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 6, 2012 4:36 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Issue After Reboot<br> </font> <br>
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Gang Gong Moy <<a ymailto="mailto:gmoy8888@yahoo.com" href="mailto:gmoy8888@yahoo.com">gmoy8888@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I received the entropy key recently and I've been generally impressed by it.<br>> One minor question that has come up is whether the USB driver fails to<br>> detect and connect to the device after a reboot.<br>><br>> I'm using Centos 5.4. If I perform a reboot with the device attached to the<br>> computer, then it doesn't seem to work properly. The 'ekeydctl list' command<br>> shows nothing running after the reboot and "entropy_avail" is low. On the<br>> other hand, if I plug in the device after the boot up completes, everything<br>> works normally.<br><br>FWIW I'm using Gentoo Linux and it works fine for me after rebooting.<br>The Gentoo ekeyd package has some patches, especially to the udev<br>rules and scripts, maybe you will find something in it that is
useful<br>to solve your problem. (note they have patched it to use<br>/dev/entropykey/ instead of /var/run/entropykey/)<br><br>I'm using linux kernel 3.1.7, ekeyd 1.1.4, udev 171.<br><br>Here's the patch:<br><br>http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/ekeyd/files/ekeyd-1.1.4-gentoo.patch<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>EntropyKey-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:EntropyKey-users@lists.simtec.co.uk" href="mailto:EntropyKey-users@lists.simtec.co.uk">EntropyKey-users@lists.simtec.co.uk</a><br>http://lists.simtec.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/entropykey-users<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>