Installing wireless driver for ipw3945
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 14 18:25:50 UTC 2007
John Dey wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have been using
> instructions--http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_6_on_a_ThinkPad_T60
> to install wireless. I have an updated version of fc6 x86_64. When I run
>
> 'yum --enablerepo=atrpms install ipw3945' I get the output listed
> below. It looks like the update for the system is ahead of the package
> ipw3945. How do I proceed? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> package kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 (which is newer than
> kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) is already installed
> file /lib/firmware/ipw3945.ucode from install of
> ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at conflicts with file from package
> ipw3945-firmware-1.13-1
# rpm -e ipw3945-ucode. This package is not in the official repository.
The official package is called ip3945-firmware. Install that instead.
Alternatively add exclude=ip3945-firware* to /etc/yum.conf if you want
to retain the third party repository package.
Rahul
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