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On Friday 24 Oct 2014 15:13:29 Douglas J Hunley wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > It's a legacy setting, introduced so you can turn off this feature. |
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> > Presumably it defaults to Y for compatibility but I've been following the |
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> > advice and running without it for some time now - on desktops and |
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> > servers. |
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> Do you run a modular kernel or compile everything in? I do the latter, |
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> and on 3.17.0 turning this off caused the b43 firmware for my wifi |
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> card to not load. I'll give you that 3.17.0 has other issues, but.. |
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Thanks for this Douglas. I run a modular kernel with things that I only use |
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occasionally compiled as modules. All the rest is compiled in. |
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I am now running the 3.16.5 kernel with an ethernet cable plugged in and the |
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logs look clean (other than some ACPI problems). |
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I just enabled the wireless adaptor and I connected to the neighboor's AP fine |
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with my b43 firmware (BCM4312 chipset): |
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Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19 |
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NET: Registered protocol family 31 |
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Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized |
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Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized |
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Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized |
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Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized |
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usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb |
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b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED |
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b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) |
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b43-phy0 debug: b2062: Using crystal tab entry 19200 kHz. |
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b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized |
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b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized |
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b43-phy0 debug: QoS disabled |
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b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started |
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b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 |
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IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
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b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error |
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wlan0: authenticate with 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a |
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wlan0: send auth to 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (try 1/3) |
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wlan0: authenticated |
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wlan0: associate with 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (try 1/3) |
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wlan0: RX AssocResp from 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=1) |
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wlan0: associated |
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IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready |
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wpa_cli: interface wlan0 CONNECTED |
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dhcpcd[4637]: version 6.4.7 starting |
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So no problem here. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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