kernel update/wireless install
Me
jdangler at atlantic.net
Tue Jul 13 08:42:49 UTC 2004
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:27 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: kernel update/wireless install
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:02:10AM -0400, Me wrote:
> Darren~
> yum definitely is not finding the kernel-module-hostap rpm file.
> I ran rpm -ivh on this and got:
> Error: failed dependencies:
> Atrpms-kmdl-helper is needed by ...
>
> I found a link to this on the Google search site. Is this part of the
meta
> package 'atrpms-56-1.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm" ? I'm not sure why yum doesn't
find
> it, although I also found a link to a package which supposedly contains
all
> the yum headers as well (not sure that I need this, since yum seems to
find
> everything else its looking for)... Please advise.
Me, to end your Odyssey (and embark on another =), please do the
following:
o rpm -Uhv
http://download.atrpms.net/other/packages/fedora-2-i386/atrpms/atrpms-kickst
art-23-1.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
o apt-get update
o apt-get install kernel-module-ipw2100-`uname -r`
o apt-get install ipw2100
That's all. Now update your system with
o apt-get upgrade
o apt-get dist-upgrade
After the last step you will also be able to use yum with preset
entries for a dozen of repos. Note that you may get a message like
yum.conf saved as yum.conf.rpmnew, which means that your copy has
remained in place and you would need to manually mc/cp the rpmnew file
over to the correct place.
Axel~
Thanks for the input. I was able to grind my way through and get the ipw to
be recognized with some other (also valuable) input. However, this seems to
be a long-term solution to a number of other possible issues with yum not
finding things, so it seems to be well worth investing the additional time
in. I'll give this a go (as soon as I get some sleep). I'm having so much
fun learning all of this that I wind up staying up most of the night reading
and trying things out!
Thanks again.
Regards,
John
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Me
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:40 AM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: RE: kernel update/wireless install
>
> Darren~
> Man, if I could read, I'd be dangerous. I'm glad I went back to that
> install page and looked again. I originally read .../en/_$basesearch_ (so
> that's what I wrote). Reality: .../en/_$basearch_ (as in base archive
?)...
> Sorry about that... Newbie panic attack. It's reading now.
>
> John Dangler
> GenoFit
> 800-505-4078 (Corporate)
> 386-767-3730 (Direct)
> www.genofit.com
> jdangler at genofit.com
>
>
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Darren Grant
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:33 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: kernel update/wireless install
>
> I'd have to see your yum.conf...
>
> Don't remove your other entries... just make sure you add this to bottom
> of your yum.conf file.
>
> [at-stable]
> name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
>
baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-st
> able
>
> I don't care where it is... it's the only place I've found the ipw2100
> drivers all nicely packaged in RPM's for FC2 and the 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
kernel.
>
> Besides you can still use the manual way... of surfing the atrpms.net
> site and then grabbing the 6 files I mentioned before... then just use
> rpm -ivh /module.rpm/ to install them.
>
> Me wrote:
>
> >Darren~
> >I guessed at the first entry in yum.conf (which was wrong). Thanks for
the
> >update. I entered the line in yum.conf exactly as below (why a German
> >server?) and got the following output from yum:
> >Gathering header...
> >Server: ATrpms for Fedora...
> >Retrygrab() failed for:
>
>http://apt.physik.de/fedora/2/en/$basesearch/at-stable/headers/header.info
> >Executing failover method
> >Failover: out of servers to try
> >Error getting file http://<repeat-of-above>
> >[Errno 4] IOerror: HTTP error 404: Not Found
> >
> >Did I type this wrong, or is the server really busy?
> >
> >Thanks for the help.
> >
> >John
> >
> >From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> >On Behalf Of Darren Grant
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:06 AM
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> >Subject: Re: kernel update/wireless install
> >
> >Me wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Vlad~
> >>
> >>That's okay. We're all learning. Darren's reply was most helpful
> >>regarding which pieces to put in place, but I think I need to
> >>configure my yum.conf file to go to the atrpms servers for these
> >>pieces. Do you have any knowledge of how to get yum to do this?
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>*From:* fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Vlad I.
> >>*Sent:* Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:55 AM
> >>*To:* For users of Fedora Core releases
> >>*Subject:* Re: kernel update/wireless install
> >>
> >>dude, me too.. sorry.
> >>
> >>
> >> *From:* Me <mailto:jdangler at atlantic.net>
> >>
> >> *To:* 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> >> <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> *Sent:* Monday, July 12, 2004 9:58 PM
> >>
> >> *Subject:* RE: kernel update/wireless install
> >>
> >> Vlad~
> >>
> >> Thanks for the reply. The exact output from uname -r gives:
> >> 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
> >>
> >> The output from uname -a gives:
> >>
> >> Lnux nebo 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 #1 Thu Jul 1 08:25:29 EDT 2004 i686 i686
> >> i386 GNU/Linux
> >>
> >> Hence the confusion.
> >>
> >> I hope you can help. I'm a little confused by the combination of
> >> i686 and i386.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> *From:* fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Vlad I.
> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:09 AM
> >> *To:* For users of Fedora Core releases
> >> *Subject:* Re: kernel update/wireless install
> >>
> >> Hey, John --
> >>
> >> Type **uname -r** it will tell you which kernel you are actually
> >> running, both the Linux version and the Redhat release.
> >> i586 or i686 are kernel versions. if you are running the i386
> >> kernel, _EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN i686 CPU_, you must use the i386 RPMs.
> >>
> >> source - http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/
> >>
> >> cheers!
> >>
> >> vlad
> >>
> >>
> >> *From:* Me <mailto:jdangler at atlantic.net>
> >>
> >> *To:* fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> *Sent:* Monday, July 12, 2004 8:30 PM
> >>
> >> *Subject:* kernel update/wireless install
> >>
> >> I am trying to install the ipw2100 wireless on my Insprion
> >> 8600 notebook.
> >>
> >> I originally installed FC2 2.6.5-1.358, and have since then
> >> upgraded to 2.6.6.1-435.2.3 using up2date. When I run the make
> >> file (builds external) I get an error saying that ieee802_11.h
> >> is not found. The file exists under the /usr/src directory for
> >> the original kernel. My guess is that I need to download the
> >> source for the kernel I updated to. I have found the packages
> >> for both kernel-source and the modules, but they are listed as
> >> i586 and i686 (there are 64-bit as well, but I don't have that
> >> system type). Can anyone tell me which of these I should get?
> >> I am somewhat new at this, so any input is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Go to this link:
> >
> >http://www.atrpms.net/install.html
> >
> >This shows you how to modify your existing yum.conf file to use
> >atrpms.net as a resource.
> >
> >Basically you need to add this to the bottom of your /etc/yum.conf file:
> >
> >| [at-stable]
> >name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
>
>baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-s
> t
> >able
> >
> >|
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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