First off thank you to all of you for your work in letting me run linux on my system! It really is greatly appreciated! It has come a long ways from the early 90's due to everyone sharing their skills and contributing. Sadly the below is driving me nuts for some reason and I am at a loss on how to remedy it myself so I seek your wisdom. I really would like to find a way to stop the repeated messages from my wireless device in dmesg. It works fine and I have never had an issue with it before. I have updated to kernel ver 4.15-rc7 and could not find anything in configuring to stop this behavior. It also does this with the latest 4.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 kernel from Debian so I don't believe it is something I have or havn't done but I have been wrong more than once when confident I was right. Most of things I have found refer to getting the Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter working on a system and do not fix the repeated spamming of this message. Is there something I need to fix or if this is normal behavior is there a way I can send this to the black hole (/dev/null) it belongs in? Thank you for any insight, Walt uname -a Linux debian-laptop 4.15.0-rc7-feas-00005-g4d01e46404b8-dirty #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 7 19:31:26 EST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux wlan0: authenticate with 14:ab:f0:68:ae:e0 wlan0: send auth to 14:ab:f0:68:ae:e0 (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with 14:ab:f0:68:ae:e0 (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 14:ab:f0:68:ae:e0 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by country IE sudo iw reg get global country US: DFS-FCC (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A) (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), AUTO-BW (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 23), (0 ms), DFS (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A) (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A) lspci 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) lsmod | grep ath ath9k 114688 0 ath9k_common 20480 1 ath9k ath9k_hw 479232 2 ath9k,ath9k_common ath 32768 3 ath9k_hw,ath9k,ath9k_common mac80211 806912 1 ath9k cfg80211 737280 4 mac80211,ath9k,ath,ath9k_common sudo rfkill list all 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no lsmod | grep acer acer_wmi 24576 0 sparse_keymap 16384 1 acer_wmi rfkill 28672 5 acer_wmi,cfg80211 video 45056 2 acer_wmi,i915 wmi 28672 3 wmi_bmof,acer_wmi,mxm_wmi sudo dmesg | grep ath | egrep "regdomain|Country" [ 28.375725] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65 [ 28.375727] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 [ 95.802335] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348 [ 95.802340] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US [ 95.802342] ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by country IE [ 2487.519115] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348 [ 2487.519121] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US [ 2487.519123] ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by country IE [ 3962.490884] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348 [ 3962.490892] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US [ 3962.490895] ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by country IE [ 6089.394036] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348 [ 6089.394043] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US [ 6089.394045] ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by country IE
