Or even point me to some thread or website which is about this process. Really appreciate. What I got is the following error message. Thanks again. Also post which Dell laptop you have and the relevant portion from the typed command; lspci -v You might need the older 2. Re: fail to install ieee driver Post by yzhao » Fri Nov 24, pm Hi Lenard, I have uninstalled firmware3. It gets the same errors as I run modprobe ipw At the mean time please let me know if you found something from my following info.
Thank you very much. You can use yum for this but you need an ATrpms. And I found a kernel rpm ipwkmdl This is a same linux kernel as the version I'm running right now. After that glxgears showed the expected improvement. It's a shame that I had to disable Composite since that means no fancy eye-candy, but perhaps it will work in a later ATI driver release.
Video played fine in Xine with the power connected, but running on battery playback would stutter. To fix this I edited:. I was unable to find a ipw RPM for my kernel 2. Here's the trick, which makes yum pick the right kernel for the ieee package:. Since I haven't tried this myself, I'll keep my method in place in case this doesn't work for anyone. Then I needed to find a way to get the ipwd daemon to startup. The modprobe. As a side note - the wireless switch on the front of the laptop seems to work fine with Linux.
The connection even comes back ok if you switch it off and then on again. I installed the tpb package to get the extra keys on the keyboard to work and display status on the screen:. Like many Core Duo laptops, my T60 emits a high-pitched squeal when on battery power. Way more than you ever wanted to know:. If you wish to use specific repo for yum install specific version of rpm, then you can check chapter: YUM install from specific repo in this article. Now I have a complete list of rpms from the repository which matches vim string, so I can yum search package for the rpm name I plan to install.
Snippet from my terminal yum list packages. If there are no updates available then you will not get " Available Packages " section as you can check here:. Snippet from my terminal yum list packages with duplicates. So now we see, there are two different versions of vim-common available in our repository. Now since we have the rpm name and the version details, we just need to combine them both in the format. Snippet from my terminal yum install specific version. Since there was a dependency for vim-common with vim-enhanced , both are automatically downloaded and installed using yum.
Snippet from my terminal yum install from specific repo. Lastly I hope the steps from the article to yum install specific version of rpm with examples on Linux was helpful.
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