Trouble installing broadcom sta wireless

[tjoney]

I am trying to install broadcom sta wireless on my dell 1525 laptop and I am having trouble. I have rpm repositories enabled and I ran the command yum install broadcom-wl and was told I have dependecy issues.

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
kmod-wl-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686-5.10.27.14-1.fc10.2.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-wl-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686-5.10.27.14-1.fc10.2.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-wl-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686-5.10.27.14-1.fc10.2.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)


I have successfully installed this before with no problems on my computer but had to do a reinstall and would like to get this working again.

[stoat]

I would either update the kernel and try again, or download and manually install the three broadcom-wl packages for the existing kernel.

[tjoney]

Thanks. So how do I update the kernel? I just did a whole system update and that did not work.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by tjoney

So how do I update the kernel? I just did a whole system update and that did not work.

That should have updated the kernel, too. But did you remember to reboot? Until you do that, you're still using the old kernel. If you knew that and did that, then my apologies.

[tjoney]

Yes I did reboot when I updated and that did not cure the problem.

[stoat]

I just looked in the repos, and there is a new F10 kernel there (kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686.rpm). And new kmod-wl packages for it are also now in the rpmfusion nonfree repo...

kmod-wl-5.10.27.14-2.fc10.1.i686.rpm
kmod-wl-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686-5.10.27.14-2.fc10.1.i686.rpm

So, if your currently running kernel is that new one (check with uname -r), and you are still getting that same dependency error from running yum install broadcom-wl...

Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 is needed...

...then I have no idea what that is all about.

If it were happening to me, I think I would just download the three packages for the new kernel from RPM fusion and try manually installing them with the rpm command. I posted links to the two kmods above. Just for completeness, here is a link to the current broadcom-wl package...

broadcom-wl-5.10.27.14-1.fc10.noarch.rpm

Put those three rpm files together in a directory (say, on your Desktop), cd to that directory, and then...

su
rpm -Uvh *.rpm

[tjoney]

Thank you for the help. My problem is solved!!! I just clicked on the 2nd kmod download, then installed it and everything else was fixed. Thanks.