yum update question

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Jan 5 01:35:59 UTC 2010


s wrote:
> On 01/03/2010 11:50 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that 
>> I got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype 
>> into computer that has mail" so I might have a typo:
>>
>> [...]
>> Installing: kernal-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686
>> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.lo
>> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq_fw.bin for module aic94xx.lo
>> [...]
>>
>> The machine is old and I am prepared to understand that it might be 
>> getting "too old". But I can't figure out how I am decipher this 
>> message into something which lets me understand what f12 thinks is 
>> missing in my firmware. I checked my f11 install logs on another 
>> machine and do not see these warnings.
>>
>> IMHO, it would be nice if yum told me where to look to understand 
>> these messages, but MHO might be ignorant of something obvious, so I 
>> can't complain until I understand this warning.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Paul
>>
>
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523365
>
"s":

Oh yeah, that is definitely it ... thanks for the bug id #

Paul




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