[arch-general] Intel AES-NI instructions error

[Jan Steffens]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Don Juan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed today after a fresh reboot that whenever my laptop connects
> now wirelessly, I get a new message in dmesg saying:
> Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected.
>
> Figuring was a bad boot or something along those lines I tried a couple more
> reboots, to no avail. It is still mentioning this once I connect to wifi,
> does not show up if I just leave the machine running not wirelessly
> connected.
>
> From what I read online nothing seems to be relating to wifi, most things I
> have read is to attach quiet to the boot commands and that would solve it,
> well I already have quiet and it does not show up during boot its only once
> the wifi card is used. I could not find anything that appeared to be similar
> or related. Does anyone know why this error is now showing up? Everything is
> updated right before I rebooted the last time, the only things that changed
> today for me were gnutils and another x-keyboard config update. Should I be
> worried about this or?
>
> Thanks for any help and info

This is just an informational message about your CPU's capabilities
(or lack of them), not an error.
In this case, specialized AES instructions are not available, so the
code uses the more compatible (but slower) path.