Hello everyone.
It is with great pleasure that I can say that (after some doubt, and a long
time waiting for this latest version, based on a LTS (more stable) version of
Ubuntu) I have definitely adopted Trisquel on my secondary (laptop) computer.
:)
I managed to get it working properly by myself, by adding the "nomodeset"
option on the kernel parameters (since, it wouldn't boot to the graphical
login otherwise) and, contrary to the previous (5.5) version of Trisquel, my
laptop now shuts down properly and (very) quickly.
There's only one catch - that I believe to be Trisquel-related (or specific).
When booting up, right before the graphical login shows up, I can see an
error message saying "Missing Free firmware".
And, checking the "/var/log/dmesg" file, this are the last lines that are
written there:
[ 81.971043] 8139too 0000:08:02.0: eth0: link down
[ 81.971340] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 81.971970] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 82.020036] ssb0:0: Missing Free firmware
[ 82.356103] b43-phy0: Loading OpenSource firmware version 410.31754
[ 82.356109] b43-phy0: Hardware crypto acceleration not supported by
firmware
[ 82.356112] b43-phy0: QoS not supported by firmware
[ 82.408639] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 82.408966] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
The "b43" part of the messages, relates to the built-in Broadcom BCM4318
wireless network card, that already functioned "out-of-the-box" in 5.5 and is
now functioning well, also, in 6.0. I suspect this error message to have
something to do with this card, but, I can use it, and I don't think I have
any problems with my wireless connection - and am using it now to post this
message.
I suspect this to be just a "benign" error message - of the type that appear,
a lot, just to report results, and one that can be ignored, with no problems.
But, not knowing what it means, I would like to be sure...
Also, if this is that type of error message, is there a way to "silence" it,
so that it doesn't show up during boot? (It's just that, with only this
exception, everything seems to be working fine - and, if possible, I would
like to setup a Trisquel system functioning in an as "pretty" way as
possible.) :)
Thank you, to everyone involved, for this Great distro.
I can now happily (fully) operate a laptop computer, with a WiFi connection,
using only Free Software! :)
