I am the one who asked the question about /dev/random
earlier today. I don't know if answers are appropriate on this
list, but here is what I found out:
The /dev/random device was working but exceedingly slowly
because I was using the wrong IRQ's. That was partly due to the
fact that all of the FreeBSD systems I am trying to enable
/dev/random on have been up from between 168 to 183 days and
every single one had lost all the dmesg data from their buffers.
I decided to see if there were any files on the system
whose creation time coincided with the last time it was booted.
That search lead me to /var/dmesg.boot. Alleluia! I used the
IRQ for the SCSI disk controller, the CDROM IDE controller and
the Ethernet adapters. I now seem to have a steady flow of
entropy events.
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