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digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 355

Can't update ndiswrapper

From a couple of days my system can't update because of ndiswrapper:

[root@archtoshiba ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Sincronizzazione dei database in corso...
 core è aggiornato
 extra è aggiornato
 community è aggiornato
:: Aggiornamento del sistema in corso...
:: Vuoi sostituire ndiswrapper-utils con community/ndiswrapper? [S/n] s
risoluzione delle dipendenze in corso...
ricerca dei conflitti in corso...
errore: impossibile eseguire l'operazione richiesta (impossibile soddisfare le dipendenze)
:: ndiswrapper-lts: richiede ndiswrapper-utils=1.56

ndiswrapper-utils goes in conflict with ndiswrapper and pacman asks me to substitute it. When I answer yes, it shows me an error: ndiswrapper requires ndiswrapper-lts, so I can't go forward...

Yesterday I removed ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts, then installed the new ndiswrapper, but after reboot the system couldn't load.

So, I booted with kernel26-lts-fallback and rollback to ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts. The system now works, but I can't update it.

What should I do?
Thanks...

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can't update ndiswrapper

"ndiswrapper requires ndiswrapper-lts" - are you sure? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … iswrapper/

Run

LC_ALL=C <command>

to get output in English.
If you enabled C locale, it should work.

Edit: Ahhh, somebody put ndiswrapper back in community. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49709

Again, what happens if you remove the AUR packages and install only the package from [community]?

Last edited by karol (2011-08-19 13:02:48)

digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 355

Re: Can't update ndiswrapper

"ndiswrapper requires ndiswrapper-lts" - are you sure? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … iswrapper/

Run

LC_ALL=C <command>

to get output in English.
If you enabled C locale, it should work.

[root@archtoshiba ~]# LC_ALL=C pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace ndiswrapper-utils with community/ndiswrapper? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ndiswrapper-lts: requires ndiswrapper-utils=1.56

Sorry, lts requires utils...

Edit: Ahhh, somebody put ndiswrapper back in community. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49709

So? What is the point?

Again, what happens if you remove the AUR packages and install only the package from [community]?

Ehm, I don't understand.
I've not installed ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49935 & https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49713).

edit: Neither ndiswrapper (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49709)...

Last edited by digitalone (2011-08-19 13:12:26)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can't update ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper got moved to community so pacman will try to install it. The AUR packages will probably get removed in a matter of days.

Remove -lts and utils and install ndiswrapper from [community]. Post any errors.

digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 355

Re: Can't update ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper got moved to community so pacman will try to install it. The AUR packages will probably get removed in a matter of days.

OK, but I never installed ndiswrapper from AUR. I think that I don't need it, because I use flashplugin-beta x86_64 from AUR and wifi driver is compiled everytime the kernel is updated.

I wonder if I really require it...

Remove -lts and utils and install ndiswrapper from [community]. Post any errors.

I've already done it yesterday and didn't get any errors:

pacman.log:

[2011-08-18 18:41] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2011-08-18 18:41] synchronizing package lists
[2011-08-18 18:41] starting full system upgrade
[2011-08-18 18:42] Running 'pacman -R ndiswrapper'
[2011-08-18 18:43] Running 'pacman -S ndiswrapper'
[2011-08-18 18:43] Running 'pacman -R ndiswrapper-utils'
[2011-08-18 18:43] Running 'pacman -R ndiswrapper-lts'
[2011-08-18 18:44] removed ndiswrapper-lts (1.56-5)
[2011-08-18 18:44] Running 'pacman -R ndiswrapper-utils'
[2011-08-18 18:44] removed ndiswrapper-utils (1.56-2)
[2011-08-18 18:44] Running 'pacman -S ndiswrapper'
[2011-08-18 18:44] module configuration already contains alias directive
[2011-08-18 18:44] 
[2011-08-18 18:44] installed ndiswrapper (1.56-14)

But at startup, after loading deamons, it freezes and can't show KDE login page.
In everything.log the only strange thing I noticed was:
Aug 18 19:49:56 localhost loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_device(426): couldn't chdir to /etc/ndiswrapper: No such file or directory