fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 56

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear friends,

  I tried both "yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`" and  "yum
install iwlwifi iwlwifi-kmdl-`uname -r`", but it still complains about
missing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3142.fc7.

  What next? Thanks!

     Take care
     Oliver

On 5/23/07, fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com
<fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:50:44AM -0400, Jeff Guerdat wrote:
> > Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >
> > > I am running F7, as far as I know fully updated. I can not install
> > >ipw3945 or iwlwifi (from atrpms), because yum says, the right kernel
> > >(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3142.fc7) is missing. The system does not even
> > >seem to be aware of the existence of the adapter (it does work,
> > >however, under Windows XP). I have no idea what to do next.
>
> Upon the very first install of a kmdl yum just picks one and may pick
> one for the wrong kernel. The way to overcome this is to use
>
> yum install foo foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
>
> to guide yum to pick the proper first kmdl.
>
> > I've installed various modules from ATrpms by simply downloading the
> > ones I want and manually install them.  I get the same issue with
> > wanting to update a non-existent kernel so, at least for now, I just do
> > the manual installs.  Works fine, lasts a long time...
>
> For subsequent updates of this kmld one can use yum-plugin-kmdl. It
> deals properly with kmdl upgrades, e.g. co selects them for on kernel
> upgrades. It just doesn't have logic to aid yum in selecting the very
> fist one (which does seem quite hard to do as a plugin).
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/