[Wylug-help] FC10 and NDISwrapper

Mon Apr 27 14:35:24 UTC 2009

Hi Gary,

  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.

  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 :

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219486

  The way that rpmfusion packages it for fc10, you need 3 rpms, two i686 and
one i386.

  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.

--
Martyn Ranyard

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Gary Stainburn <
gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:

> 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]#
>
> --
> Gary Stainburn
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