yum has mind of its own

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jul 7 11:24:43 UTC 2006


Andy Burns wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>> when do we get a kmod-ntfs that stays in synch with the current kernels?
> 
> You do realise that Fedora doesn't provide your ntfs kernel modules?
> 
> You have obviously installed a 3rd party module (presumably from livna) 
> when you do this it is wise to wait until livna has caught up with a new 
> kernel before installing that kernel, if ntfs is important to you, 
> alternatively you could install the kernel source yourself and rebuild 
> with ntfs enabled ...
> 
Except where do I find the kernel srcs?  Good question that.  And my 
buildit scripts are on the main machine at home 1000 miles SE of me.

I found the instructions for bcm43xx-fwcutter and ran that against the 
windows drivers to generate the missing bcm43xx_microcode5.fw firmware.

And that was a BIG mistake.  No boot, frozen solid at wlan0 up everytime 
with a huge oops report/segfault frozen on-screen mentioning bcm43xx 
something or other.  So the power button is getting lots of testing 
tonight.  I finally managed to wade through a ubuntu 606 live boot, get 
my partition mounted, and disabled wlan0 and re-enabled eth0 so now I 
have a bootable machine and a network again.  But I am not a happy camper...

-- 
Cheers, Gene




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