Hello,
this is a fully intel machine (ICH7, wifi 3945); it was a bit (kinda 1-2 months) I did not du this machine (it still had kde 4.8 and krnl 3.7-2 on board) and, after full du accomplished, 3 problems emerged:
1. no wifi
2. no audio
3. there is a point in which boot stops waiting for some device (?which one?) then timeouts and resumes
Problem 1 was due to rfkill: an "rfkill unblock all" made the trick, but I had to put it in /etc/rc.local; now this is not normal, why?
Problem 2 was the PC not loading snd-hda-intel, which now I also had to put in /etc/modules; why this?
Problem 3 I dunno if it is tied to one of the previous ones, but no clear clue about it; there is some modprobe that fails. Here is dmesg where I show where the machine stops (around 21 seconds):
[ 16.756203] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[ 16.898317] intel_rng: FWH not detected
[ 16.940494] parport_pc 00:03: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 16.940697] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 16.985065] hp_accel: laptop model unknown, using default axes configuration
[ 16.988970] lis3lv02d: 12 bits sensor found
[ 17.022478] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 17.026354] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GM Chipset
[ 17.026550] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 262144K total, 262144K mappable
[ 17.028422] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 8192K stolen memory
[ 17.028806] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
[ 17.053859] found SMC SuperIO Chip (devid=0x7a rev=03 base=0x004e): LPC47N227
[ 17.054040] smsc_superio_flat(): fir: 0x100, sir: 0x3e8, dma: 03, irq: 7, mode: 0x0e
[ 17.054283] smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8
[ 17.159184] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8
[ 17.159700] Registered led device: hp::hddprotect
[ 17.297678] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, in-tree:s
[ 17.297926] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
[ 17.308992] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000001028-0x000000000000102f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.C002.C003.C0BA 1 (20120913/utaddress-251)
[ 17.309589] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 17.309931] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000001130-0x000000000000113f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.C002.C003.C0CC 1 (20120913/utaddress-251)
[ 17.310630] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 17.310968] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000001100-0x000000000000112f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.C002.C003.C0CC 1 (20120913/utaddress-251)
[ 17.311465] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 17.311803] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[ 17.352730] iwl3945 0000:10:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
[ 17.352945] iwl3945 0000:10:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
[ 17.353241] iwl3945 0000:10:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 17.353443] Registered led device: phy0-led
[ 17.366214] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 17.393531] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[ 17.980617] leds_ss4200: no LED devices found
[ 18.043587] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 18.043723] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 18.043937] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.044192] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.044437] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.044650] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.044862] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.093520] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 18.180175] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 18.180879] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
[ 18.181091] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7-M or ICH7-U TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
[ 18.181519] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 18.392351] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.406634] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 18.406775] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 18.406965] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[ 18.529387] [drm] initialized overlay support
[ 18.720484] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 19.421939] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 19.426571] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 19.426605] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 19.426643] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 21.749762] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/serio5/input/input9
THIS IS WHERE IT STOPS
dmesg does not report the failing modprobe string, and it was too long to take note of
[ 79.101385] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 79.101732] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.23.0-ioctl (2012-07-25) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[ 79.821310] fuse init (API version 7.20)
[ 80.184420] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 87.211403] iwl3945 0000:10:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
[ 87.280977] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 87.321891] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 88.884458] tg3 0000:08:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 89.052870] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 91.378692] wlan0: authenticate with f8:1a:67:5b:34:1c
[ 91.382145] wlan0: send auth to f8:1a:67:5b:34:1c (try 1/3)
[ 91.385957] wlan0: authenticated
[ 91.388031] wlan0: associate with f8:1a:67:5b:34:1c (try 1/3)
[ 91.392298] wlan0: RX AssocResp from f8:1a:67:5b:34:1c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 91.397937] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 91.399407] wlan0: associated
[ 93.639631] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 93.641163] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 93.642664] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 93.879229] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 93.880708] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 93.882155] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 95.061931] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 95.063952] lp0: console ready
[ 95.303041] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 116.028342] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[ 116.028506] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x3fc offMax=0x1ce0
[ 116.028588] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[ 116.028591] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.2.16 (interface 0x001a0005).
[ 116.949471] vboxpci: IOMMU not found (not registered)
[ 150.339448] netlink: 20 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 150.339455] netlink: 20 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 150.339486] netlink: 20 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
So may this be due to failing hw, bad du, device-mapper, the hell, or what?
Thanks