[WBEL-users] Driver removed

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:46 +0800, Plug N Play wrote:
> Thanks Johnny for the clarification,
> 
> So that means I can't schedule an upgrade with yum cause
> It might remove my driver anytime and making my server
> Inaccessible (worse if it upgrades at night). =(
> 
> 
> Marc
> 

In your /etc/yum.conf you can add the line:

exclude=kernel*

to prevent upgrading the kernel until you want to (by overriding it)

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:02 AM
> To: WhiteBox Users
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Driver removed
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:19 +0800, Plug N Play wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Greetings.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > A quick question to the list. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I just installed Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Software on my
> > 
> > Whitebox Linux 3.0 Respin 1. All are working fine until I update
> > packages
> > 
> > using yum. After update finished and the system was rebooted. My
> > installed and
> > 
> > working lancard was gone again. I think it may be because of the
> > kernel upgrade to
> > 
> > (Whitebox Linux 3.0 Respin 2).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > How can I prevent my driver from being removed again in the future if
> > I do an upgrade to my
> > 
> > kernel. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> Drivers are Kernel Modules ... when you upgrade your kernel, you have to
> rebuild the modules for that kernel. Since that driver is not a standard
> kernel module (all the standard ones are rebuilt when building the
> kernel), it has to be rebuilt manually after every kernel upgrade.
> 
> That is how kernel modules work :)


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