Fortunately I was starring at the screen during an upgrade and 'caught' the following set of messages. It is hard to remember what I installed fuse for, I think for webdav. My system has a ipw3945 pci card, wireless is working. Here are the messages: Uninstalling: fuse 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf (2.6.18-92.1.17.el5) (i686) -------- Uninstall Beginning -------- Module: fuse Version: 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (i686) ------------------------------------- Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel. Removing any linked weak-modules WARNING: Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.17.el5/weak-updates/fuse.ko: No such file or directory WARNING: Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.17.el5/weak-updates/fuse.ko: No such file or directory WARNING: No module dm-mem-cache found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-region_hash found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-message found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-raid45 found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-mem-cache found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-region_hash found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-message found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-raid45 found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-mem-cache found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-region_hash found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-message found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, continuing anyway WARNING: No module dm-raid45 found for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, continuing anyway fuse.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.17.el5/extra/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. depmod.... DKMS: uninstall Completed. Uninstalling: ipw3945 1.2.1-1.nodist.rf (2.6.18-92.1.17.el5) (i686) Error! The module ipw3945 1.2.1-1.nodist.rf is not currently installed. This module is not currently ACTIVE for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (i686). Cleanup : kernel ##################### [368/592] Oh, dkms is installed and took quite a while to get past its startup, it seems to have been busy doing a lot of disk I/O on that 1st (and so far only) reboot after the upgrade.... Oh, 6 updates done, and 5 to go. 2 of those are very critical systems (DNS server and PPPoE gateway).