[PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Sat Oct 11 04:19:27 UTC 2014


Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> "asus_wmi: Error removing rfkill notify handler /_sb.pcio.pop5
> repeat ...pop6
> repeat ...pop7
>
> could not write bytes: Broken Pipe"
>
> I have kernel 3.13.0 Ubuntu 12.04
>
> Various function buttons fail to work
>
> Googling gave me lots of very technical stuff that was way beyond my pay grade.
>
> Does anybody here have a clue as to what the issue is, and possibly a
> way that a mortal can resolve it?  It is not urgent, as the machine is
> still usable.
>
> Thanks,
> -Denis
>
Dennis,

 From the driver for the wifi card:

696  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L696>  static voidasus_unregister_rfkill_notifier  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=asus_unregister_rfkill_notifier>(structasus_wmi  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=asus_wmi>  *asus, char *node  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=node>)
697  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L697>  {
698  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L698>          acpi_status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=acpi_status>  status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=status>  =AE_OK  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=AE_OK>;
699  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L699>          acpi_handle  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=acpi_handle>  handle  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=handle>;
700  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L700>  
701  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L701>          status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=status>  =acpi_get_handle  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=acpi_get_handle>(NULL  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=NULL>,node  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=node>, &handle  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=handle>);
702  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L702>  
703  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L703>          if (ACPI_SUCCESS  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=ACPI_SUCCESS>(status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=status>)) {
704  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L704>                  status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=status>  =acpi_remove_notify_handler  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=acpi_remove_notify_handler>(handle  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=handle>,
705  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L705>                                                      ACPI_SYSTEM_NOTIFY  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=ACPI_SYSTEM_NOTIFY>,
706  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L706>                                                      asus_rfkill_notify  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=asus_rfkill_notify>);
707  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L707>                  if (ACPI_FAILURE  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=ACPI_FAILURE>(status  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=status>))
708  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L708>                          pr_err  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=pr_err>(/"Error removing rfkill notify handler %s\n"/,
709  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L709>                                 node  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=node>);
710  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L710>          }
711  <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c#L711>  }

So it looks like it was fine for the 0 through 4 sockets, but fails on the 5th, 6th, and 7th socket.  Which may
be just chaff and can be ignored.


Ken





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