>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Colin> It turns out that the dependency name is wrong!.
Colin> Actually, what i needed was kmod-wl 5.100.82.38 and kmod-wl
Colin> 2.6.35.12.88. This is ÂREALLY weird (and plain unworkable,
Colin> almost).
Colin> Anyway, my network is working again.
Eric> That's what someone mentioned might be the issue with my Acer
Eric> Aspire One and its broadcom drivers. Did you just manually
Eric> find the dependency you really needed or did a yum update fix
I manually found it. What I was doing was googling on my desktop
machine, copying the found rpm to a USB stick, plugging that into my
notebook, and trying the rpm command.
Yum update isn't an option with no working network.
Eric> it? Also, did you report the bug?
I don't know that there's necessarily a bug involved. The problem is
that yum update will update the kernel, but as I had to use this
procedure to install the driver in the first place (no network, so i
cound't use yum - catch 22), yum might not be
looking for the broadcom driver in the first place.
Perhaps I could NOW try a yum install (with an option to force install
already installed packages), and that would future-proof me until next
time I install from scratch.
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