[arch-general] System upgrade fails

Eric Belanger belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Fri Oct 17 12:28:27 EDT 2008


On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Manolo wrote:

> Hello, i´ m getting this message when i try to upgrade my system (pacman -Syu):
> I have the system in spanish, so i write a translation of it:
>
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> resolving dependencies...
> checking for conflicts...
> error: fail to prepare transaction (couldn´ t satisfy dependencies)
> :: ipw3945: needs kernel26<2.6.27
>
> I think ipw3945 is something about my network card, but whatever it
> is, it´s not listed in the repositories (pacman -Sl | grep ipw -->
> ipw2100-fw and ipw2200-fw). And my kernel is 2.6.26-ARCH, so i think
> is a kernel26, <2.6.27, right?
> Anyone with the same problem?? Can i uninstall the package without a problem??
> Thanks.
>
>

Uninstall ipw3945 and use instead iwl3945 (included in kernel). REf: 
http://www.archlinux.org/news/414/
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