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Veovis Muad'dib

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Registered: 2009-06-12

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[Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

I'm using broadcom wl drivers from the AUR, and they require a kernel < 2.6.30, how can I downgrade and blacklist kernel upgrades?  Also, is there a mailing list or something that I can join to tell me the next time broadcom wl is updated?  I'm assuming, but I'd be glad to be wrong, that a yaourt -Syu wouldn't update it or even tell me it's updated.

Last edited by Veovis Muad'dib (2009-06-26 10:13:57)

sand_man

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Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

Check /var/cache/pacman/pkg for the older kernel and upgrade with pacman -U pkgname.

You can then add kernel26 to /etc/pacman.conf under the IgnorePkg variable.

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wonder

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

did you tried the new version from aur? i've seen that requires kernel26>=2.6.30

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514

that's why i don't like yaourt. because when things aren't working, users don't know how to do things manually(the right way).
download the tarball from the above link, extract it, cd into the new directory and run makepkg. after that install the package with pacman -U package-full-name.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by wonder (2009-06-25 11:36:32)

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Veovis Muad'dib

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

Sand_man, thank you, that's what I was looking for.  However, in trying to fix this myself, I uninstalled the wl driver,  because ethernet stopped working, which means that that's no longer what I'm looking for.  (In hindsight I know I shouldn't have uninstalled it, but hey, what can you do?)

wonder: I know how to do that, but now I have a new problem, I can't get ethernet to work.  And from what I understand, makepkg makes a package from the instructions, but it needs the internet to download the actual code.  I was told this in another post here, so if I've been completely mislead, and there's a way to download everything from another OS and do it here, please tell me.

So now I'm wondering, how can I possibly do anything but reinstall?

PS: wonder: I installed yaourt through the AUR manually, also, I've compiled things manually in Ubuntu more times than I can count.

Last edited by Veovis Muad'dib (2009-06-25 12:09:26)

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

PS: wonder: I installed yaourt through the AUR manually, also, I've compiled things manually in Ubuntu more times than I can count.

he was talking about using yaourt to install packages from aur, adds an extra layer of abstraction to the problem, and people dont know what to do when things break.

arkham

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

I'm assuming, but I'd be glad to be wrong, that a yaourt -Syu wouldn't update it or even tell me it's updated.

RTFM please

yaourt -Syu --aur

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eldragon

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

whoops, wrong thread, ignore.

Last edited by eldragon (2009-06-25 12:33:04)

Veovis Muad'dib

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

eldragon: Okay, I've got it.  Sorry, I'm a bit on edge whenever I get desperate enough to have to post on the forums, so I always end up saying something rude or assuming that other people are being rude.

So what's the consensus then?  Do I need internet to run makepkg?  Or is there a workaround?

EDIT: arkham: I'm sure you understand that stress leads to less manual reading and more desperate posting on the forums, right?

Last edited by Veovis Muad'dib (2009-06-25 12:41:20)

Veovis Muad'dib

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Re: [Solved] Latest kernel broke my wireless drivers, how to downgrade?

Okay, while I've been gone I've gotten a lot of personal prefrences set up in Arch.  I tried to makepkg on broadcom-wl though, and indeed, I do need to be online to use it.  Any alternatives to doing it this way?  On this computer, I have MacOS 10.5.7 and Windows Vista SP1.  If I go to my friend's house, he has every flavor of Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04, if I absolutely need linux and OSX won't cut it.

EDIT: I feel stupid.  I download from the sources section, and save them in the build directory, and then change the package build file.  As soon as the tarball on Broadcom's site is back online, I'll be done.

Last edited by Veovis Muad'dib (2009-06-26 10:13:34)