[Wylug-help] FC10 and NDISwrapper

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I'm trying to get WIFI working on my new DELL and I've been told to try 
ndiswrappers.

I tried 

yum search ndiswrapper

and varients, but nothing was found. I then found RPMs using rpmsearch and 
downloaded them.

Now when I try 'yum localinstall' it adds the kernel as a dependancy, 
downloads it, and then errors saying it is already installed.

If I try 'rpm -i'  it fails on dependancy for /boot/vmlinuz

I've included the session log. Has anyone any suggestions?

Gary
[root at gary gary]# yum localinstall ~gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm 
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm 
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit                                                                                                        
Setting up Local Package Process                                                                                                          
Examining /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm: 
ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386                                                     
Marking /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm to be installed                                                                      
fedora                                                                                                                                | 
2.8 kB     00:00     
adobe-linux-i386                                                                                                                      |  
951 B     00:00     
updates                                                                                                                               | 
2.3 kB     00:00     
Examining ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm: 
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586                         
Marking ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm to be 
installed                                                                       
Resolving Dependencies                                                                                                                                       
--> Running transaction check                                                                                                                                
---> Package ndiswrapper.i386 0:1.54-20.fc10 set to be updated                                                                                               
---> Package ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 0:1.54-20.fc10 set 
to be updated                                                                  
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 for 
package: ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10                                  
Importing additional filelist information                                                                                                                    
--> Running transaction check                                                                                                                                
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10 set to be installed                                                                                       
--> Finished Dependency Resolution                                                                                                                           

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                      Arch     Version                      
Repository                                                          Size 
=============================================================================================================================================================
Installing:                                                                                                                                                  
 ndiswrapper                                  i386     
1.54-20.fc10                 /home/gary/ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm                        
48 k 
 ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10     i586     1.54-20.fc10                 
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm     186 k 
Installing for dependencies:                                                                                                                                 
 kernel                                       i586     2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10      
updates                                                             19 M 

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================
Install      3 Package(s)                                                                                                                                    
Update       0 Package(s)                                                                                                                                    
Remove       0 Package(s)                                                                                                                                    

Total size: 19 M
Total download size: 234 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  package kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 is already installed

Error Summary
-------------

[root at gary gary]# rpm -i ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm 
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586.rpm
warning: ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, 
key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i586 is needed by 
ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10-1.54-20.fc10.i586
[root at gary gary]# uname -a
Linux gary.ringways.co.uk 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 
23:37:54 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at gary gary]#

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