[ATrpms-users] Re: ipw2200 1.0.4 and firmware 2.3

[Axel Thimm]

Hi Johnny,

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:23:44PM +0200, Johnny Choque wrote:
> According the James Ketrenos's email announcing the new version of ipw2200
> in the ipw2100 mailling list, in order to use monitor mode with ipw2200
> 1.0.4 is mandatory to install firmware 2.3. But after install
> ipw2200-firmware-2.3-6.at.noarch.rpm I get the following message error when
> I try to install ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0.4-27.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm
> package:
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         ipw2200-firmware = 2.2 is needed by
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0.4-27.rhfc3.at.i686
> 
> I have tried to use ipw2200-1.0.4 with ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at but the
> monitor mode doesn't work.
> 
> Please, could you tell me why
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0.4-27.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm package need
> ipw2200-firmware-2.2 instead of ipw2200-firmware-2.3? Is that a bug?

Yes, a bug :(

If you can't wait until it's fixed in the repo (needs ~6h), then force
the installation of the proper firmware with --nodeps. The update will
restore the broken dependencies.

Thanks for reporting!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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