-- 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. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------