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[217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mc4sm2250707wic.6.2014.10.24.07.44.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:44:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uevent_helper on kernel 3.16.5-gentoo Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:44:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201410241237.10235.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart25715640.ujqjdTDm2K"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201410241544.16255.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2637cb2f-756c-4a97-938f-04a1d4aa56f5 X-Archives-Hash: 8c0349b2cc4902d238c798f019fa84bf --nextPart25715640.ujqjdTDm2K Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 24 Oct 2014 15:13:29 Douglas J Hunley wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > It's a legacy setting, introduced so you can turn off this feature. > > Presumably it defaults to Y for compatibility but I've been following t= he > > advice and running without it for some time now - on desktops and > > servers. >=20 > Do you run a modular kernel or compile everything in? I do the latter, > and on 3.17.0 turning this off caused the b43 firmware for my wifi > card to not load. I'll give you that 3.17.0 has other issues, but.. Thanks for this Douglas. I run a modular kernel with things that I only us= e=20 occasionally compiled as modules. All the rest is compiled in. I am now running the 3.16.5 kernel with an ethernet cable plugged in and th= e=20 logs look clean (other than some ACPI problems). I just enabled the wireless adaptor and I connected to the neighboor's AP f= ine=20 with my b43 firmware (BCM4312 chipset): Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) b43-phy0 debug: b2062: Using crystal tab entry 19200 kHz. b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized b43-phy0 debug: QoS disabled b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error wlan0: authenticate with 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a wlan0: send auth to 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 02:ac:54:e2:c8:8a (capab=3D0x421 status=3D0 aid= =3D1) wlan0: associated IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wpa_cli: interface wlan0 CONNECTED dhcpcd[4637]: version 6.4.7 starting So no problem here. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart25715640.ujqjdTDm2K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJUSmXAAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeB4YH/iVojy2RGWscgB41qXe/qhku vyuYxG28bFsjC5DS+iYipZrIrrpKtUugym5XENbravEdGAYF+7tEgFEERhpLo28g BmYqMW3Y9iGW8nn65T+q0O+qA1dDPazywisvHlmer82TjywxtP5m3gzpgpbjtxEf 90IW6h3lhMsaDEcLytjbzo0NQVoON+GqMQ2ruj+CUcRHuytXM5wPR/d3HqDKOrj9 Paz0Tmid+eZWT0Gvf6EFLx71hKfqee5WEOzJSVsqbM2VixtLVRiTC6mch8ZDTaXK n3InFZeScKKoRFF93CMjIIq/YmzDRu5XUUxtLmtFnYvfz5bfApQX7jEXJqjsApo= =YCny -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart25715640.ujqjdTDm2K--