Hi Gary,<br><br> I think the problem might be stemming from you having a running i686 kernel and the rpm you have specifying an i586 kernel. This is one of the places RedHat did choose some very odd packaging decisions, at least back when I ran Fedora.<br>
<br> I find it very odd that FC10 would not have ndiswrapper in the default repos, but it would appear to be a common enough problem : <br><br><a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219486">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219486</a><br>
<br> The way that rpmfusion packages it for fc10, you need 3 rpms, two i686 and one i386.<br><br> It was exactly this kind of issue I used to hate when working on cAos linux - these days I use Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, and therefore debian and I find the "quirks" I run into on .debs seem to be much easier to deal with than those on .rpms.<br>
<br>--<br>Martyn Ranyard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Gary Stainburn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk">gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi folks.<br>
<br>
I'm trying to get WIFI working on my new DELL and I've been told to try<br>
ndiswrappers.<br>
<br>
I tried<br>
<br>
yum search ndiswrapper<br>
<br>
and varients, but nothing was found. I then found RPMs using rpmsearch and<br>
downloaded them.<br>
<br>
Now when I try 'yum localinstall' it adds the kernel as a dependancy,<br>
downloads it, and then errors saying it is already installed.<br>
<br>
If I try 'rpm -i' it fails on dependancy for /boot/vmlinuz<br>
<br>
I've included the session log. Has anyone any suggestions?<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
[root@gary gary]# yum localinstall ~gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm<br>
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit<br>
Setting up Local Package Process<br>
Examining /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm:<br>
ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386<br>
Marking /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm to be installed<br>
fedora |<br>
2.8 kB 00:00<br>
adobe-linux-i386 |<br>
951 B 00:00<br>
updates |<br>
2.3 kB 00:00<br>
Examining ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm:<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586<br>
Marking ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm to be<br>
installed<br>
Resolving Dependencies<br>
--> Running transaction check<br>
---> Package ndiswrapper.i386 0:1.54-20.fc10 set to be updated<br>
---> Package ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 0:1.54-20.fc10 set<br>
to be updated<br>
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 for<br>
package: ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10<br>
Importing additional filelist information<br>
--> Running transaction check<br>
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10 set to be installed<br>
--> Finished Dependency Resolution<br>
<br>
Dependencies Resolved<br>
<br>
=============================================================================================================================================================<br>
Package Arch Version<br>
Repository Size<br>
=============================================================================================================================================================<br>
Installing:<br>
ndiswrapper i386<br>
1.54-20.fc10 /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm<br>
48 k<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10 i586 1.54-20.fc10<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm 186 k<br>
Installing for dependencies:<br>
kernel i586 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10<br>
updates 19 M<br>
<br>
Transaction Summary<br>
=============================================================================================================================================================<br>
Install 3 Package(s)<br>
Update 0 Package(s)<br>
Remove 0 Package(s)<br>
<br>
Total size: 19 M<br>
Total download size: 234 k<br>
Is this ok [y/N]: y<br>
Downloading Packages:<br>
Running rpm_check_debug<br>
Running Transaction Test<br>
Finished Transaction Test<br>
<br>
<br>
Transaction Check Error:<br>
package kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 is already installed<br>
<br>
Error Summary<br>
-------------<br>
<br>
[root@gary gary]# rpm -i ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm<br>
warning: ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY,<br>
key ID 66534c2b<br>
error: Failed dependencies:<br>
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 is needed by<br>
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586<br>
[root@gary gary]# uname -a<br>
Linux <a href="http://gary.ringways.co.uk" target="_blank">gary.ringways.co.uk</a> 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23<br>
23:37:54 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<br>
[root@gary gary]#<br>
<br>
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