Blocking auto-update of Kernel

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 16:47:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Pikachu_2014 <pikachu.2014 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> 2009/12/30 James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com>
>
> Hi,
>> Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my
>> kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but
>> there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories?
>>
>> Best regards
>> James
>>
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> Hi,
>
> by default yum keeps the last 3 kernels installed. But you can set yum to
> keep all the updated kernels (see the installonly_limit key in
> /etc/yum.conf).
>
> Anyway I don't know any third-party repository that still provides madwifi
> drivers, since Atheros chipsets are supported by the vanilla kernel for a
> moment. Why do you still need madwifi? Which repo providing madwifi for F12
> have you?
>
>
Atheros drivers never worked reliably for me.  I lost the connection with
them every 5 min. I am still using ndiswrapper and the windows driver. I
think it depends on the router one is using.

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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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