[arch-general] Intel AES-NI instructions error

[Don Juan]

On 01/20/2012 03:51 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> 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...
>
Yes I am using WPA and I am using rtlwifi, rtl8192se. Maybe I just never 
noticed it but I swear its new to me. But to me this confirms that its a 
nothing message. Maybe something upstream changed with rtlwifi or 
rtl8192se, I know there is lots of working being pushed for those 2 drivers.