1.) I hope you also fixed some minor rejects you may have gotten in the
top-level Makefile (that's a nasty difference between the -XFS branch
and the plain linux kernel) otherwise the crypto/crypto.o might not
get linked into the kernel image, and then you won't see any message
regarding crypto initialization in dmesg(8)
for non-XFS kernels I provided the patch against 2.4.8 which may apply
to 2.4.9 and later as well... guess I'll have to re-diff against some
newer kernel in order to avoid confusion... ;-)
2.) you need to patch your util-linux-2.11i with the patch contained in
the same directory, where you got the crypto patch from... maybe one
should make ready to use rpms of the patched util-linux stuff... even
if IMHO you shouldn't trust binaries you didn't compile yourself.....
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Okay, I took a virgin 2.4.9 source tree and applied the 2.4.10pre4
> patch to it. Then I applied the cryptoapi-2.4.10-pre4-xfs.diff patch to
> that, and, after configuring (this time will all the crypto stuff in the
> kernel rather than modules, and "yes" to all of them except DES), and
> compiled, booted -- seems to work okay, except I find no mention of
> crypto in /var/log/messages from the boot like there was before. I also
> installed util-linux-2.11i.
> Anyway, so, since obviously we don't have to modprobe cryptoloop,
> I just try "losetup -e blowfish (or twofish, or aes, or whatever)
> /dev/loop0 /my file". For each of them, I get a "Unsupported encryption
> type blowfish " or whatever I try to use. Hmm. Doing a man losetup, I
> see it still only lists the same 3 crappy old dinosaurs, so, what the
> heck -- I try des, even tho I didn't even put that in as a module. That
> gets accepted, then it asks for my password and I give it one, then it
> says "Init (up to 16 hex digits):" and I'm not sure what to put in
> there. What is this?
> But obviously something is not working -- why is des accepted and
> nothing else? The FAQ says that I need a new losetup, but I've got the
> latest one. To be sure, I go to RedHat and download their latest losetup
> rpm which is 2.11b and install that -- same thing.
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