Just a heads up: there has been a lot of user reports of problems recently with all kmods from rpmfusion. I haven't quite got to the bottom of it, but essentially it seems that if you're running the i686 kernel (which is now PAE only) and you install a kmod as usual with "yum install kmod-foo", then it will pull in the i586 version of the kmod instead of the correct i686 PAE version. The solution/workaround seems to be to remove the i586 kernel and kmod, then you must do "yum install kmod-foo-PAE" specifically. This is causing quite a lot of confusion, and for the sake of our users I think it would be nice if we could fix this so that a "yum install kmod-foo" will install the correct kmod (as it used to I believe). Is this something that can be fixed in the kmodtool, or do us kmod maintainers need to fix something in the spec files? Some examples of the problem: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1267204&postcount=3 Chris

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:18:43PM +0100, Chris Nolan wrote: > Just a heads up: there has been a lot of user reports of problems > recently with all kmods from rpmfusion. > > I haven't quite got to the bottom of it, but essentially it seems that > if you're running the i686 kernel (which is now PAE only) and you > install a kmod as usual with "yum install kmod-foo", then it will pull > in the i586 version of the kmod instead of the correct i686 PAE version.

> The solution/workaround seems to be to remove the i586 kernel and kmod, > then you must do "yum install kmod-foo-PAE" specifically. This is > causing quite a lot of confusion, and for the sake of our users I think > it would be nice if we could fix this so that a "yum install kmod-foo" > will install the correct kmod (as it used to I believe). > [...] This is something that the Yum plugin for kmod v2 will do...once written.