[arch-general] Intel AES-NI instructions error

[Leonid Isaev]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:42:51 -0800
Don Juan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Are you using WPA wifi and what driver? For me, this message appears each time
I connect to a WPA2 AP (intel 5100agn) since ~ 2.6.35...

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