Re: Installing wireless driver for ipw3945

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On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:23:16PM -0400, John Dey wrote:
> Axel,
> 
> 
> On May 14, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >Anyway, John, remove ipw3945-firmware (1.13 is outdated and not
> >recommended by upstream anyway) and do
> >
> >yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`
> 
> When I install ipw3945 from atrpms repo, I get a 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
> 
> What do I do to eliminate the error message.  Thanks for your response 
> and I hope I hear from you shortly.

You should try the command above.

Explanation: While there are plugins for yum to *additionally* pick
kmdls for already installed kernel, kernels to be installed etc. the
very first choice of the first kmdl is up to yum core. When yum wants
to pick one of the kmdls that would fulfill the requirements it
doesn't check on what kernel you have installed, so it may pick the
wrong flavour, the wrong version etc.

In order to aid yum with the very first kmdl you just tell him the
proper kernel version of your *currently* running kernel. That's what
the uname -r is above.

> John
> 
> Then I get an error summary with nothing following.
> >
> >and if you want to never ever think about kernel updates do also
> >
> >yum install yum-plugin-kmdl
> >
> >>Alternatively add exclude=ip3945-firware* to /etc/yum.conf if you want
> >>to retain the third party repository package.
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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