yum install madwifi problem

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:05:28PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> Below is the output from the above command.  It's showing a problem, but 
> I don't know what to do to fix it.  I also got the same happen when I 
> tried
> 
> yum install kernel-module-ndiswrapper
> 
> What do I need to do to resolve the problem?
> 
> Gary
> 
> root at dcomp5 ~]# yum install madwifi
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
> 00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
> 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 838 kB    
> 00:29
> extras    : ################################################## 2384/2384
> Added 164 new packages, deleted 62 old in 4.18 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for madwifi to pack into transaction set.
> madwifi-0.0-0.lvn.7.20050 100% |=========================| 4.4 kB    
> 00:00
> ---> Package madwifi.i386 0:0.0-0.lvn.7.20050917.4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-module-madwifi >= 0:0.0 for package: 
> madwifi
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 to 
> pack into transaction set.
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    
> 00:00
> ---> Package kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4.i686 
> 0:0.0-0.lvn.7.20050917.4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 for package: 
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
> Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
> filelists.xml.gz          100% |=========================| 2.1 MB    
> 01:22
> extras    : ################################################## 2384/2384
> Added 164 new packages, deleted 62 old in 10.77 seconds
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 is needed by 
> package kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
> [root at dcomp5 ~]# 
> -- 
> Gary Stainburn
I would say you would need to install kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
This is a common problem when you have program you want to install
that is tied to a particular version of the kernel. I would guess that
because kernels are installed as opposed to being updated yum will not
install this kernel dependency automatically.
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Aaron Konstam
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Trinity University
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