On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:58 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > I'm running FC6. There are two kernels installed: > > [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qva | grep ^kernel > kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 > kernel-headers-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 > kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 > > The problem is, wireless doesn't work with the newer kernel (2.6.22.1-32 > - something to do with a conflict between wireless-tools and wireless > extensions and versions which I could not resolve) but it does work with > the older kernel (2.6.20-1.2962) and all the previous kernels. There is > a newer kernel available: 2.6.22.2-42. I would like to install > 2.6.22.2-42 and keep 2.6.20-1.2962. Yumex wants to remove 2962. I've > tried to remove 32 but when I try this it wants to remove the > kmod-ndiswrapper that goes with 2962 (because of dependencies - which > seems weird to me). Is there some way to do this with yumex or yum? Is > it possible to have all three kernels installed? (I used to be able to > have many kernels installed in previous versions of FC, not just two.) > I've also tried unchecking the kernel-module plugin for yumex but this > seems to have no effect. > > Any advice would be appreciated. I would like to try the new kernel to > see if wireless will work but I don't want to lose a working kernel. > > Rick B. > The tokeep= option in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf should control how many kernels are kept after installing a new kernel. -- ======================================================================= rain falls where clouds come sun shines where clouds go clouds just come and go -- Florian Gutzwiller ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
