[Voyage-linux] ALIX boards finally here but boot message problem

[Edwin Whitelaw]

The ALIX boards finally arrived and booted nicely off a freshly built CF 
from 0.4.1.  The greater speed was immediately obvious and the weird 
~45mbs limitation on the old WRAP eth0 port is now gone with the ALIX 
port showing a respectable 95mbs on hardwired iperf tests.

Incidentally, these boards have bios 0.98, so the early posts about 
needing 0.94 to run 0.4.1 are moot at this point.

One minor glitch I'm seeing is that during boot I get many (enough to 
wipe out all the beginning dmesg output) of these:

-----------boot message output--------
Failure writing to cs5535 codec
Failure reading codec reg 0x3c,Last value=0x0
Failure writing to cs5535 codec
Failure writing to cs5535 codec
Failure reading codec reg 0x1c,Last value=0x0
AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET
Failure writing to cs5535 codec
Failure reading codec reg 0x7c,Last value=0x0
Failure writing to cs5535 codec
Failure reading codec reg 0x7e,Last value=0x0
AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
mixer failed
pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:0f.3: state=3, current state=5
cs5535audio: probe of 0000:00:0f.3 failed with error -5
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 2.1, Sept 11, 2006
  originally by Donald Becker <becker at scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
  2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
geode-mfgpt:  Registered timer 0
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: 
dm-devel at redhat.com
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
Setting ALC off
Setting TX power to 23 dBm
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
process `syslogd' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
Starting DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq.
dhcp.nrvunwired.net: host unknown
Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: disabled via /etc/default/hostapd.
* Not starting internet superserver: no services enabled.
Loading capability module if not yet done.
Starting Quagga daemons (prio:10):.
Starting network management services: snmpd.
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.
Starting watchdog daemon: watchdog.
Remounting / as read-write ... Done.
Removing /etc/nologin ... Done.
Remounting / as read-only ... Done.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 hills1 ttyS0

hills1 login:
-----------end boot messages----------

It looks like the kernel is trying to initialize some sound device not 
present.  Do I need to rebuild the kernel to make this go away or is 
there an easier way to ?  Would be a pity to do that extra work but I 
really miss having the first part of my boot messages as a diagnostic.  :-)

Also, does anyone have any data on power capacity. ie, running two 600mw 
radios on one board?

Thanks,

Edwin

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