several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

HP DV5320US lappy, with amd64 turion, but running 32 bit FC5.

Since 2139 has been out for about a week now, I thought I'd see how much 
of the system would die if I booted to it, so I tried.

First, from /var/log/messages:

Jun 26 18:09:32 diablo kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ 
irqpoll noapic noapci pci=assign-busses lapic
Jun 26 18:09:32 diablo kernel: Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support 
enabled
Jun 26 18:09:32 diablo kernel: This may significantly impact system 
performance

Thats probably been there before, and yes, this box does seem to be slow 
for a 1.8GHZ processor.  Can anyone comment?

Then later:
Jun 26 18:09:34 diablo kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jun 26 18:09:34 diablo kernel: ACPI: bus type pci registered
Jun 26 18:09:34 diablo kernel: PCI: Using MMCONFIG
Jun 26 18:09:34 diablo kernel: PCI: No mmconfig possible on 0:18

No idea what 0:18 might represent in the hardware.  How do I define this?

Then a few lines later:

Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx driver
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled 
at IRQ 10
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> 
Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, 
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, 
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, 
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, 
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 
2, Revision 7
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f 
(Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Jun 26 18:09:40 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off

And quite a bit later:

Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx:    .level = 0
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx:    .enabled = 0
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 0
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks 
first.
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate 
scan. Is device up?
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Jun 26 18:09:41 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode 
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.

Now I've asked whats the procedure to switch from ndiswrapper to 
actually using the bmc43xx.ko driver thats now part of the kernel tree, 
and have been ignored.  Hell, even a link to rtfm would be fine.

So I had modified my /etc/modprobe.conf

options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
alias eth1 tg3
#alias wlan0 bcm43xx

to
#options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0
#alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
alias eth1 tg3
alias wlan0 bcm43xx

Which of course didn't work.

Also the kmod-ntfs stuff has gotten out of sync and I cannot mount the 
windows partition anymore.  I've posted the failed attempts to install 
that a couple of times now.

So I am rebooted back to 2133 which appears to be working ok other than 
NM is disabled and the old (network start) ways to bring up a network 
are in use.

-- 
Cheers, Gene