On Friday 24 Oct 2014 15:13:29 Douglas J Hunley wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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 the > > advice and running without it for some time now - on desktops and > > servers. > > 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 use 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 the logs look clean (other than some ACPI problems). I just enabled the wireless adaptor and I connected to the neighboor's AP fine 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=0x421 status=0 aid=1) 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. -- Regards, Mick
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