Thanks Stephan. That did the update ran fine.

Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2009, at 18:09, Al Russell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately still no luck.
>>
>> I was a little brief in my first post so a little more info. I am 
>> using SL 5.3 and have kept it updated. Until now I have not had any 
>> problems applying distributed updates/patches.
>>
>> "yum clean all" followed by several other tests gave no new 
>> information and all ended with the same error See bottom of first post).
>
> Well, it wants the ndiswrapper from SL 5.4. I guess 
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686.rpm made 
> it into the 5.3 errata by accident when -164.6.1 was rushed out. So 
> temporarily adding a line
>
> exclude=kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5
>
> to the yum configuration for that repository should make the update work.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Stephan.
>
>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> Poltawer Kozak wrote:
>>> ? ???, 2009-11-07 ? 00:12 -0600, Al Russell ????:
>>>
>>>> I just tried to apply latest kernel update and it fail on Missing 
>>>> Dependency: ndiswrapper - yum listing follows. Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> ~ $ su -c "yum update"
>>>> Password:
>>>> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
>>>> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>>>> Finished
>>>> Setting up Update Process
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.55-1.SL set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: ndiswrapper >= 1.55 for package: 
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5
>>>> ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 set to be installed
>>>> ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 set to be 
>>>> installed
>>>> ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 set to be 
>>>> updated
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686 from 
>>>> sl-security has depsolving problems
>>>> --> Missing Dependency: ndiswrapper >= 1.55 is needed by package 
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686 
>>>> (sl-security)
>>>> Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.53-1.SL set to be installed
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL5 set to be installed
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.55-1.SL set to be installed
>>>> Finished Kernel Module Plugin
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.55-1.SL set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: ndiswrapper >= 1.55 for package: 
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686 
>>>> 0:1.53-1.SL set to be updated
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686 from 
>>>> sl-security has depsolving problems
>>>> --> Missing Dependency: ndiswrapper >= 1.55 is needed by package 
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686 
>>>> (sl-security)
>>>> Error: Missing Dependency: ndiswrapper >= 1.55 is needed by package 
>>>> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686 
>>>> (sl-security)
>>>> ~ $revers variant?
>>>>
>>>
>>> $ yum list | grep kernel-module-ndiswrapper
>>>
>>> Select your and install for exempl:
>>> # yum install kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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