On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:51:09AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 9/7/07, W. J. Kossler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 19:15 -0400, W. J. Kossler wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 16:03 -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, W. J. Kossler wrote:
> 
> > > ieee80211 version 1.2.18-20.el5
> > > ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 version 1.2.18-20.el5
> > > ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 version 1.2.18-20.el5
> 
> I am reporting a seemingly related problem here.  It is not a SL issue
> but rather a bug in yum or a packaging (dependency/Requires) problem.
> Anyway, just for the record.
> 
> I have a recent install of SL 5 and tried to run:
> 
> yum install ieee80211 --enablerepo=atrpms
> 
> and got this result (last part only):
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 for package:
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-8.el5
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 is needed by
> package ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-8.el5
> 
> It is looking for kernel 2.6.18-8.el5. But because the only kernel I
> have is  2.6.18-8.1.8.el5, the dependency fails.
> 
> I have not been able to find a solution for this.  Probably need to
> ask somewhere upstream.

Isn't 2.6.18-8.el5 available in the repos? But anyway, you don't want
2.6.18-8.el5, but rather something newer. Unfortunately when yum is
told to pull in some kmdl it will have to choose between all available
versions and will choose one that you don't want.

So it's better to tell yum what to get exactly and not the decision to
yum. You can do that with:

yum install ieee80211 ieee80211-kmdl-`uname -r`

(assuming you want to point yum to the current kernel, replace `uname
-r` with something else if you need to)

Same for any other kernel module.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net