-- Le (On) 2009-03-18 +0100 à (at) 09:34:25 Urs Beyerle écrivit (wrote): --

> Hi,
> 

       Hi Urs,

       and thanks for your kind answer.

> As far as I remember kernel-module-firewire was never included in official SL. Maybe I put it once
> on a LiveCD.
> 

       I did not use it from a LiveCD but I use your :

       http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/psi/current/firewire-1286-5.sl4.psi.src.rpm  

       which I "rpmbuild" for each new kernel release. I did that for a long time and it worked
       fine till yesterday :(


> Do you need firewire support on this hardware? If not I would just uninstall all firewire related rpms.

       Yes because on this old laptop I have only USB 1 and firewire is much faster to access
       external hard disks.

> 
> <snip>
> 

       After many attempts, I just discover it is a bug with yum-2.4.3-10.SL

       yum localinstall kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm 
           ============

       does not work, but :

       yum install kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm 
           =======

       is OK.

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