[arch-general] Intel AES-NI instructions error

[Don Juan]

On 01/20/2012 03:40 PM, Jan Steffens wrote:
> 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.
OK thanks, just weird it just started showing up, never use to see this 
before until either todays or yesterdays updates, so I was making sure 
it was nothing to worry about.