On 04/15/2011 10:14 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: >>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Mesa<ericsbinarywo...@gmail.com> writes: > Colin> It turns out that the dependency name is wrong!. > Colin> Actually, what i needed was kmod-wl 5.100.82.38 and kmod-wl > Colin> 2.6.35.12.88. This is REALLY weird (and plain unworkable, > Colin> almost). > > Colin> Anyway, my network is working again. > > Eric> That's what someone mentioned might be the issue with my Acer > Eric> Aspire One and its broadcom drivers. Did you just manually > Eric> find the dependency you really needed or did a yum update fix > > I manually found it. What I was doing was googling on my desktop > machine, copying the found rpm to a USB stick, plugging that into my > notebook, and trying the rpm command. > Yum update isn't an option with no working network. > > Eric> it? Also, did you report the bug? > > I don't know that there's necessarily a bug involved. The problem is > that yum update will update the kernel, but as I had to use this > procedure to install the driver in the first place (no network, so i > cound't use yum - catch 22), yum might not be > looking for the broadcom driver in the first place. > > Perhaps I could NOW try a yum install (with an option to force install > already installed packages), and that would future-proof me until next > time I install from scratch. On Drivers that need to be updated with the kernel may not happen when kernel is updated , and the next time around when you do a "yum update" they get updated.
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