From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 3 7:39:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21B337B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.bsdmike.org (espresso.bsdmike.org [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DD843FE1 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@espresso.bsdmike.org) Received: by espresso.bsdmike.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 714239C5F; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:26:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:26:45 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Wayne Cc: Jason Barnes , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't sshd into box Message-ID: <20030303102645.D49156@espresso.bsdmike.org> References: <20030303000602.A26864@etaq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030303000602.A26864@etaq.com>; from wayne@etaq.com on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:06:02AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne writes: > Dear Jason, > > [Not too many people jumping onto this thread to help me.] > > The first two non-bold lines on rebooting, are: > hw.bus.devctl_disable: 0 -> 1 > Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point. > > So I try: > root@etaq3:/home/wayne>sysctl hw.bus.devctl_disable: 1 -> 0 > [but the result is:] > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.bus.devctl_disable:' > > So what the heck is "Entropy harvesting" ? Could this > be blocking my incoming contact attempts? I missed most of this thread, but to set the sysctl you want to: `sysctl hw.bus.devctl_disable=0'. See random(4) for details on entropy harvesting. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message