yum update issue..

[bruce]

Happy 4th guys..

I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed, but
thought maybe I could get pointers here on this!)

The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.

The update process, was the same as usual, as root, run "yum update" never
had an issue prior to this.

The error is:
Total                                            90 kB/s | 756 MB
144:00
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error:
  file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin from install of
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
  file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin from install of
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
  file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin from install of
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch

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

so my question..  how/what do I need to do to resolve the error, and still
perfom the updates and not screw up the wifi.

By the way, in the event the wifi does screw up, I've got old spare usb
wifi dongles, but I'd prefer to be able to use the onbard wifi. The laptop
is a toshiba satellite

Thanks for any pointers!

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/04/16 20:40, bruce wrote:
> Happy 4th guys..
>
> I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed, but thought maybe
> I could get pointers here on this!)
>
> The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.
>
> The update process, was the same as usual, as root, run "yum update" never had an issue
> prior to this.
>
> The error is:
> Total                                            90 kB/s | 756 MB    144:00    
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
> rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
>   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
> rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
>   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package
> rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> Error Summary
>
> so my question..  how/what do I need to do to resolve the error, and still perfom the
> updates and not screw up the wifi.
>
> By the way, in the event the wifi does screw up, I've got old spare usb wifi dongles,
> but I'd prefer to be able to use the onbard wifi. The laptop is a toshiba satellite
>
> Thanks for any pointers

I think you have rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch installed, correct?

If that is the case you could try excluding kernel-firmware in the el6 repo, which I
assume is the CentOS repo?

Barring that, you can ask on the elrepo mailing lists as it seems their stuff is causing
you grief and they should have the knowledge to assist.

FW: yum update issue..

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[bruce]

Hey Ed.

Thanks for the reply.

For grins, I placed the exclude line in the elrepo file for the yum update

[elrepo]
name=ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6
baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
    http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
    http://jur-linux.org/download/elrepo/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
    http://repos.lax-noc.com/elrepo/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
    http://mirror.ventraip.net.au/elrepo/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.elrepo.org/mirrors-elrepo.el6
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
protect=0

#trying to update... getting an error.. will this work jul 5/16??
exclude=kernel-firmware <<<<<

didn't see any change in the error the 'yum update' generated

I've got feelers out to the elrepo people via irc.. thanks!

--and of course, still researching to see how to resolve this..

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> On 07/04/16 20:40, bruce wrote:
> > Happy 4th guys..
> >
> > I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed,
>
> but thought maybe
> > I could get pointers here on this!)
> >
> > The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.
> >
> > The update process, was the same as usual, as root, run "yum update"
>
> never had an issue
> > prior to this.
> >
> > The error is:
> > Total                                            90 kB/s | 756 MB
>
> 144:00
> > Running rpm_check_debug
> > Running Transaction Test
> >
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
>
> package
> > rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> >   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
>
> package
> > rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> >   file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
>
> package
> > rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> > Error Summary
> >
> > so my question..  how/what do I need to do to resolve the error, and
>
> still perfom the
> > updates and not screw up the wifi.
> >
> > By the way, in the event the wifi does screw up, I've got old spare usb
>
> wifi dongles,
> > but I'd prefer to be able to use the onbard wifi. The laptop is a
>
> toshiba satellite
> > Thanks for any pointers
>
> I think you have rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> installed, correct?
>
> If that is the case you could try excluding kernel-firmware in the el6
> repo, which I
> assume is the CentOS repo?
>
> Barring that, you can ask on the elrepo mailing lists as it seems their
> stuff is causing
> you grief and they should have the knowledge to assist.
>
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/04/2016 05:40 AM, bruce wrote:
> Happy 4th guys..
>
> I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed,
> but thought maybe I could get pointers here on this!)
>
> The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.

What wifi chipset is it?

If you're running a kernel from that repo, shouldn't they be providing 
the firmware package as well?  What is pulling in the kernel-firmware 
package?  What would be removed if you tried to remove the 
kernel-firmware package?

[John Pilkington]

On 04/07/16 13:40, bruce wrote:
> Happy 4th guys..
>
> I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed,
> but thought maybe I could get pointers here on this!)
>
> The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.
>
> The update process, was the same as usual, as root, run "yum update"
> never had an issue prior to this.
>
> The error is:
> Total                                            90 kB/s | 756 MB    144:00
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
>    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
>    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin from install of
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> Error Summary
>
> so my question..  how/what do I need to do to resolve the error, and
> still perfom the updates and not screw up the wifi.
>
> By the way, in the event the wifi does screw up, I've got old spare usb
> wifi dongles, but I'd prefer to be able to use the onbard wifi. The
> laptop is a toshiba satellite
>
> Thanks for any pointers!

Sort of 'me too.'  I have a rarely used Compaq 32-bit laptop running SL6 
with the elrepo kernel-ml (3.10-ish) to get TV tuner support.  I took it 
to a place with only wifi internet at the end of May.  The wifi worked 
for two days and then went dead.  Yesterday, with ethernet, I updated 
and wifi came back.  I see that a new default kernel was installed at 
around the time it went away.

I thought I used to use the kernel-ml-firmware, but found only 
kernel-firmware installed, with a conflict when I tried adding ml.

'yum erase kernel-firmware; yum install kernel-ml-firmware' worked, but 
I saw no difference after a reboot.  Reversed the order, still no 
difference, and still ok.

The iwl3945 firmware is in its own package.

John P

[bruce]

oh...

for me..

dmesg | grep rtl

returns rtl188ee

modprobe rtl8188ee installs

I had renamed the files for the rtl :
   /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
   /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
   /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin

and removed the rtl using modprobe

I then, via yum, completed the update, which gave a successful
update/install, and also installed the new kernel-firmware.

a modprobe rtl8188ee appears to have given wifi.. and i don't have the
rtl8188-firmware in the list of kernels..

rpm -qa | grep kernel

this is all on centos 6.5 system (by the way...)

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:08 AM, John Pilkington  wrote:
> On 04/07/16 13:40, bruce wrote:
> > Happy 4th guys..
> >
> > I have a centos 6.5 box with a yum update error. (I know, this is fed,
> > but thought maybe I could get pointers here on this!)
> >
> > The laptop runs kernel for elrepo, to be able to use the builtin wifi.
> >
> > The update process, was the same as usual, as root, run "yum update"
> > never had an issue prior to this.
> >
> > The error is:
> > Total                                            90 kB/s | 756 MB
> > 144:00
> > Running rpm_check_debug
> > Running Transaction Test
> >
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> > package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> >    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> > package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> >    file /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin from install of
> > kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from
> > package rtlwifi-firmware-20131223git-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> > Error Summary
> >
> > so my question..  how/what do I need to do to resolve the error, and
> > still perfom the updates and not screw up the wifi.
> >
> > By the way, in the event the wifi does screw up, I've got old spare usb
> > wifi dongles, but I'd prefer to be able to use the onbard wifi. The
> > laptop is a toshiba satellite
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers!
>
> Sort of 'me too.'  I have a rarely used Compaq 32-bit laptop running SL6
> with the elrepo kernel-ml (3.10-ish) to get TV tuner support.  I took it to
> a place with only wifi internet at the end of May.  The wifi worked for two
> days and then went dead.  Yesterday, with ethernet, I updated and wifi came
> back.  I see that a new default kernel was installed at around the time it
> went away.
>
> I thought I used to use the kernel-ml-firmware, but found only
> kernel-firmware installed, with a conflict when I tried adding ml.
>
> 'yum erase kernel-firmware; yum install kernel-ml-firmware' worked, but I
> saw no difference after a reboot.  Reversed the order, still no difference,
> and still ok.
>
> The iwl3945 firmware is in its own package.
>
> John P
>
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