Madwifi not working with latest kernel upgrade, broken dependency.
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Wed May 31 18:25:07 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:02 -0400, Dan wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
> > Yesterday I did a yum update on my laptop. A new kernel, 2122, and many
> > other packages installed, but madwifi from livna would not install due
> > to a dependency on madwifi-kmod-common. The new kernel and the
> > installed madwifi do not work together. I can get madwifi to work if I
> > boot to the previous kernel 2096.
> >
> > The missing dependency for madwifi and kmod-madwifi is
> > madwifi-kmod-common = 0.0.0.20060317 is not available.
> >
> > Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
> >
> > Gerry
> >
> >
> >
> I would suspect this is because madwifi-kmod-common currently does not
> exist in livna. Probably a mistake by livna, either adding this
> dependency or forgetting to upload madwifi-kmod-common with the update.
> The old kernel's kmod-madwifi is designed for the old kernel, and won't
> work with any other kernel. So you need the new one for a new kernel;
> the same madwifi should work for both (as long as both kmod-madwifis
> will work with the same version). Yum does not currently handle these
> kmods correctly (e.g. it updates it so that the one for the old kernel
> isn't there anymore, when it should be retained); you can try
> yum-fedorakmod in Extras, the attempt at correcting this.
> -Dan
>
Thanks, Dan.
I installed yum-fedorakmod as you suggested, then reported the bug to
livna, who said there was a package bug earlier.
Per their advice, I uninstalled the madwifi, kmod-madwifi packages and
used yum to install new ones which do now work with the latest kernel.
Gerry
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