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deech

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Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 3

(solved) No ath_pci after upgrade of kernel to 2.6.27

Hi all,
I installed Arch on my desktop PC for the first time yesterday. The 2.6.25 kernel had the ath_pci module for my wireless card. I installed the new Nvidia driver for my video card with pulled in 2.6.27 as a dependency and removed 2.6.25. After I rebooted because ath_pci is not in  the present kernel I can't access the web. Is there any way I can tell pacman to reinstall 2.6.25 and its modules using install CD? I don't currently have access to an ethernet jack.

Thanks...
-deech

Last edited by deech (2009-01-14 18:32:00)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: (solved) No ath_pci after upgrade of kernel to 2.6.27

mount the cd
pacman -U /mnt/cdrom/pkg/[package name] (or something like that, I don't have a cd handy to check the exact path)

I think the only thing you need is the old kernel, you should still have the modules for wifi from before the upgrade. If not I think you need madwifi + any dependencies.

For future reference, this probably happened since you installed stuff without having an updated system. You should make sure you do a pacman -Syu after you get internet working again.

Last edited by mcmillan (2009-01-14 03:28:12)

deech

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Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 3

Re: (solved) No ath_pci after upgrade of kernel to 2.6.27

Thanks for the quick response ...

Everything is working again.

When I installed I saved all the packages to /var/cache/pacman/pkg so I was able to
>'pacman -R kernel26',
>'pacman -A kernel26.2.6.25...' and
>'pacman -A madwifi-0.9.4...'.

I am upgrading now.

-deech