On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone! :-) > > I have a problem with making a wireless USB dongle work under CentOS 6. The > dongle is known to not work natively under Linux and last time I used it (cca > 3 years ago) I managed to get it working using ndiswrapper. > > This time I was hoping to make it work again in the same way. But the "yum > install kmod-ndiswrapper" reports the following (among other regular stuff): > > Error: Package: kmod-ndiswrapper-1.56-1.el6.elrepo.i686 (elrepo) > Requires: kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0xb3994c7a > Installed: kernel-2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 (@updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Installed: kernel-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.i686 (@updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Installed: kernel-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.i686 (@updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.i686 (base) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.i686 (updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.el6.i686 (base) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 (updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.i686 (updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.i686 (updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > Available: kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.i686 (updates) > kernel(per_cpu__kstat) = 0x0954e8e2 > > And yum refuses to install it. I've never seen this kind of report by yum. > What's going on here? And more importantly, how do I install kmod-ndiswrapper > on my up-to-date CentOS 6.2? That is odd. What is your kernel? uname -mri Also, there is some chance that you can find a driver for your wireless USB dongle. That would eliminate the need for ndiswrapper. Please give more detailed info. Output from the lsusb command will be useful. Akemi