This is my dmesg output from the Raspberry Pi 2 running OSMC RC3.
$ cat dmesg.txt
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0xf00
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.13-1-osmc (root@vero) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 17 18:50:26 UTC 2015
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x2e800000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 192512
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 809abd80, node_mem_map ae213000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1504 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 192512 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] [bcm2709_smp_init_cpus] enter (8640->f3003010)
[ 0.000000] [bcm2709_smp_init_cpus] ncores=4
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 10 pages/cpu @ae1e1000 s12096 r8192 d20672 u40960
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s12096 r8192 d20672 u40960 alloc=10*4096
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 191008
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=1280 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=1024 bcm2709.boardrev=0xa01041 bcm2709.serial=0x941d2dc6 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:1D:2D:C6 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 bcm2709.disk_led_gpio=47 bcm2709.disk_led_active_low=0 sdhci-bcm2708.emmc_clock_freq=250000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait quiet osmcdev=rbp2
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 744108K/770048K available (7249K kernel code, 401K rwdata, 1864K rodata, 388K init, 763K bss, 25940K reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 (2048 kB)
vmalloc : 0xaf800000 - 0xff000000 (1272 MB)
lowmem : 0x80000000 - 0xaf000000 ( 752 MB)
modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x80000000 ( 16 MB)
.text : 0x80008000 - 0x808ee928 (9115 kB)
.init : 0x808ef000 - 0x80950000 ( 388 kB)
.data : 0x80950000 - 0x809b465c ( 402 kB)
.bss : 0x809b465c - 0x80a73594 ( 764 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:608
[ 0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 19.20MHz (virt).
[ 0.000014] sched_clock: 56 bits at 19MHz, resolution 52ns, wraps every 3579139424256ns
[ 0.000036] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 52ns
[ 0.000319] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000523] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000549] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency… 38.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=192000)
[ 0.000576] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000963] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000984] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.002210] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.002263] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.002288] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.002310] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 0.002346] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 0.002427] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.002501] ftrace: allocating 18151 entries in 54 pages
[ 0.046727] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[ 0.046765] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 15, mpidr 80000f00
[ 0.046784] [bcm2709_smp_prepare_cpus] enter
[ 0.046924] Setting up static identity map for 0x6aeea8 - 0x6aef00
[ 0.106670] [bcm2709_boot_secondary] cpu:1 started (0) 17
[ 0.106974] CPU1: Booted secondary processor
[ 0.106982] [bcm2709_secondary_init] enter cpu:1
[ 0.107033] CPU1: update cpu_capacity 1024
[ 0.107041] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 15, mpidr 80000f01
[ 0.126652] [bcm2709_boot_secondary] cpu:2 started (0) 17
[ 0.126897] CPU2: Booted secondary processor
[ 0.126903] [bcm2709_secondary_init] enter cpu:2
[ 0.126933] CPU2: update cpu_capacity 1024
[ 0.126941] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 15, mpidr 80000f02
[ 0.146686] [bcm2709_boot_secondary] cpu:3 started (0) 18
[ 0.146927] CPU3: Booted secondary processor
[ 0.146934] [bcm2709_secondary_init] enter cpu:3
[ 0.146964] CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
[ 0.146972] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 15, mpidr 80000f03
[ 0.147071] Brought up 4 CPUs
[ 0.147105] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (153.60 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.147115] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.148126] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.173073] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 7 rev 5
[ 0.175112] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.178049] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.183408] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.206485] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.236512] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.236648] bcm2709.uart_clock = 3000000
[ 0.239459] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.239480] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[ 0.239513] mailbox: Broadcom VideoCore Mailbox driver
[ 0.239626] bcm2708_vcio: mailbox at f300b880
[ 0.239967] bcm_power: Broadcom power driver
[ 0.239986] bcm_power_open() -> 0
[ 0.239998] bcm_power_request(0, 8)
[ 0.740663] bcm_mailbox_read -> 00000080, 0
[ 0.740676] bcm_power_request -> 0
[ 0.740796] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[ 0.740929] dev:f1: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 83, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev3
[ 0.809023] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.809272] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.809379] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.809535] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.811158] Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.838672] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 0.838990] CacheFiles: Loaded
[ 0.850566] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.851961] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.852105] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.852298] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.852410] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.852432] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.852496] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.852968] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.853399] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.853417] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.853427] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.853438] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.853900] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 5 counters available
[ 0.854124] bcm2708_dma: DMA manager at f3007000
[ 0.854282] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x3dc00000 mem_size:0x3f000000(1008 MiB)
[ 0.855893] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.856109] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[ 0.856173] audit: type=2000 audit(0.829:1): initialized
[ 0.872086] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.872463] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.875433] FS-Cache: Netfs ‘nfs’ registered for caching
[ 0.876444] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 0.876517] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 0.876530] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 0.877562] msgmni has been set to 1469
[ 0.879605] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
[ 0.879803] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.880108] io scheduler bfq registered (default)
[ 0.880119] BFQ I/O-scheduler version: v7r7
[ 0.882608] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory eec00000
[ 0.882655] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA channel 0 @ f3007000
[ 0.904635] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
[ 0.919200] bcm2708-dmaengine bcm2708-dmaengine: Load BCM2835 DMA engine driver
[ 0.919508] uart-pl011 dev:f1: no DMA platform data
[ 0.919981] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver
[ 0.919996] vc-cma: vc_cma_base = 0x00000000
[ 0.920008] vc-cma: vc_cma_size = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 0.920019] vc-cma: vc_cma_initial = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 0.931574] brd: module loaded
[ 0.937386] loop: module loaded
[ 0.938185] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = 0xaec80000, is_master = 0
[ 0.939051] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[ 0.940002] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 0.940079] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[ 1.140445] Core Release: 2.80a
[ 1.140469] Setting default values for core params
[ 1.140496] Finished setting default values for core params
[ 1.340885] Using Buffer DMA mode
[ 1.340901] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[ 1.340912] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[ 1.340923] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[ 1.340939] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[ 1.341326] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1047: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = 0xaec14000 dma = 0xeec14000 len=9024
[ 1.341367] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
Non-periodic Split Transactions
Periodic Split Transactions
High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
[ 1.341391] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[ 1.341465] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:412: FIQ on core 1 at 0x804f8c30
[ 1.341485] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:413: FIQ ASM at 0x804f8fa0 length 36
[ 1.341505] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:438: MPHI regs_base at 0xaf80a000
[ 1.341533] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.341582] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 1.341629] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: irq 32, io mem 0x00000000
[ 1.341683] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[ 1.341694] Init: Power Port (0)
[ 1.342030] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 1.342050] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.342067] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.342082] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.18.13-1-osmc dwc_otg_hcd
[ 1.342098] usb usb1: SerialNumber: bcm2708_usb
[ 1.343090] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.343154] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.343683] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[ 1.343697] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[ 1.343707] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[ 1.343749] Module dwc_common_port init
[ 1.344118] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.344398] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.345289] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=600000 max=900000
[ 1.345615] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.345628] sdhci: Copyright© Pierre Ossman
[ 1.345809] DMA channels allocated for the MMC driver
[ 1.381192] Load BCM2835 MMC driver
[ 1.381492] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.384362] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.386713] hidraw: raw HID events driver © Jiri Kosina
[ 1.387031] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.387044] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.387420] TCP: cubic registered
[ 1.387441] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 1.387491] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.387754] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.387932] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.390064] registered taskstats version 1
[ 1.391511] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[ 1.391533] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[ 1.393687] [vc_sm_connected_init]: end - returning 0
[ 1.394685] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2…
[ 1.418858] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[ 1.421006] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
[ 1.421658] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA08G 7.21 GiB
[ 1.423299] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 1.518054] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 1.518124] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[ 1.528917] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 1.529579] Freeing unused kernel memory: 388K (808ef000 - 80950000)
[ 1.541322] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[ 1.721295] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[ 1.721457] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[ 1.921619] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514
[ 1.921651] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 1.922682] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.922806] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected
[ 2.201412] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[ 2.301642] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[ 2.301673] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.304760] smsc95xx v1.0.4
[ 2.365086] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register ‘smsc95xx’ at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:1d:2d:c6
[ 2.441398] usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[ 2.554778] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=3333, idProduct=3333
[ 2.554812] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.570602] input: HID 3333:3333 as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/0003:3333:3333.0001/input/input0
[ 2.571000] hid-generic 0003:3333:3333.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [HID 3333:3333] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input0
[ 2.585739] input: HID 3333:3333 as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.1/0003:3333:3333.0002/input/input1
[ 2.586253] hid-generic 0003:3333:3333.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 3333:3333] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input1
[ 2.681467] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 2.798897] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5370
[ 2.798930] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.798946] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 2.798961] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 2.798976] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 3.484518] random: systemd urandom read with 83 bits of entropy available
[ 3.542817] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 3.986861] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 3.987161] systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start
[ 3.987192] systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start
[ 3.987221] systemd[1]: Found dependency on rpcbind.service/start
[ 3.987249] systemd[1]: Found dependency on network-online.target/start
[ 3.987276] systemd[1]: Found dependency on connman-wait-for-network.service/start
[ 3.987301] systemd[1]: Found dependency on basic.target/start
[ 3.987326] systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job rpcbind.service/start
[ 3.987357] systemd[1]: Job rpcbind.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start
[ 3.987693] systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start
[ 3.987726] systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start
[ 3.987754] systemd[1]: Found dependency on kbd.service/start
[ 3.987781] systemd[1]: Found dependency on remote-fs.target/start
[ 3.987807] systemd[1]: Found dependency on remote-fs-pre.target/start
[ 3.987832] systemd[1]: Found dependency on connman.service/start
[ 3.987856] systemd[1]: Found dependency on basic.target/start
[ 3.987881] systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job kbd.service/start
[ 3.987911] systemd[1]: Job kbd.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start
[ 4.240345] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 4.264073] fuse init (API version 7.23)
[ 4.562312] systemd-udevd[130]: starting version 215
[ 5.024762] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 5.322177] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 5.371539] usb 1-1.4: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 5.385899] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 5.482296] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 5390, rev 0502 detected
[ 5.504399] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 5370 detected
[ 5.533069] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘minstrel_ht’
[ 5.535494] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[ 6.542203] systemd-journald[103]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 8.643627] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn’t capable of remote wakeup
[ 8.644112] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 10.318691] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 10.320891] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
[ 10.339949] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 15.190136] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30
[ 35.411118] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
The wireless dongle that does not work is the one that was supplied with my CanaKit. As I said, it works with Raspian, but not with OSMC. Here is the syslog when I plug the wireless dongle into a Desktop computer (not the Raspberry) to identify it:
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.764035] usb 2-4: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.989129] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘minstrel_ht’
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.989844] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.989875] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.989899] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb kernel: [2251768.989930] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
Jul 5 21:37:01 deb NetworkManager[3169]: found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0) (driver (unknown))
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0)
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: ‘rt2800usb’ ifindex: 19)
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): now managed
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason ‘managed’) [10 20 2]
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): bringing up device.
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): firmware may be missing.
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb NetworkManager[3169]: (wlan0): deactivating device (reason ‘managed’) [2]
Jul 5 21:37:02 deb kernel: [2251769.252794] rt2800usb 2-4:1.0: firmware: agent aborted loading rt2870.bin (not found?)
Thanks for any help.