Last kernel Update (2.6.25.11-97) breaks wlan (iwl4965)

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sun Jul 27 17:59:35 UTC 2008


On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Björn Persson wrote:

> I guess the firmware package hadn't yet reached the mirror you used when you
> upgraded the kernel. Later, when you ran yum update, the firmware package was
> there, or maybe Yum chose another mirror.

The problem is that the iwl4965 firmware package was out about a week 
before the kernel package appeared, so if the kernel was on a mirror, 
the firmware package would be on that mirror as well. I think it is 
actually a bug in PackageKit.

 	Michael Young


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