Re: Installing wireless driver for ipw3945

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Dey wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have been using 
> instructions--http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_6_on_a_ThinkPad_T60 
> to install wireless.  I have an updated version of fc6 x86_64.  When I run
>
> 'yum --enablerepo=atrpms install ipw3945' I get the output listed 
> below.  It looks like the update for the system is ahead of the package 
> ipw3945.  How do I proceed?  Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   package kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 (which is newer than 
> kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) is already installed
>   file /lib/firmware/ipw3945.ucode from install of 
> ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at conflicts with file from package 
> ipw3945-firmware-1.13-1

# rpm -e ipw3945-ucode. This package is not in the official repository. 
The official package is called ip3945-firmware. Install that instead.

Alternatively add exclude=ip3945-firware* to /etc/yum.conf if you want 
to retain the third party repository package.

Rahul