Installing wireless driver for ipw3945

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:55:50PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

It depends on what you define as official. The ATrpms intel firmware
packages have been coordinated with intel engineering *and* legal and
are "officially" blessed by Intel on their own webpages on each
wireless project old and new they maintain. Of course there is a
difference of officially endorsed by Intel or by Fedora.

Anyway, John, remove ipw3945-firmware (1.13 is outdated and not
recommended by upstream anyway) and do

yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`

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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