Kmod Removal

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Sometime ago I thought I needed kmod-wl to support a new wireless card. Turns out I didn’t need to do that. Now I’d like to remove kmod entirely. But when I try I get this:

[root@ws1 etc]# dnf remove kmod Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd-udev
(try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)

I am sure I don’t want to remove systemd-udev, so I am a loss.

I did disable akmods:

systemctl disable akmods

But I still see that kmod-wl is built each time the kernal is updated.

Any suggestions where I can find out how to remove kmod.

Note that searching the internet only brings me info on removing kmod-nvidia, and mostly on ubuntu, and they are no help because mostly what they discuss is how get back to neuveau.

Even docs I’ve found that discuss how to install kmod on CentOS say nothing about removal.

Emmett

4 thoughts on - Kmod Removal

  • Try:

    dnf remove kmod-wl

    which should do it for you.

    the ‘kmod’ package is the package that provides the underlying kmod architecture. The kmod package providing the individual driver is
    (probably) called kmod-wl.

    Hope that helps.

  • I tried that before:

    [root@ws1 etc]# dnf remove kmod-wl No match for argument: kmod-wl No packages marked for removal. Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete!

    Seem there is no such package. I believe because it get built newly each time a new kernel is installed.

    Emmett

  • What did you do (exactly) when you installed kmod-wl in the first place? Did the rpm have a name? What was that name?

    If you’re not sure, the what is the output from:

    rpm -qa | grep kmod

  • [root@ws1 etc]# rpm -qa | grep kmod kmod-27-3.fc33.x86_64
    akmods-0.5.6-26.fc33.noarch kmod-libs-27-3.fc33.x86_64
    kmodtool-1-41.fc33.noarch akmod-wl-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
    kmod-wl-5.11.19-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
    kmod-wl-5.12.5-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
    kmod-wl-5.12.6-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64

    I probably did this when installing. It has been a while.

    [root@ws1 etc]# dnf install kmod-wl Last metadata expiration check: 1:16:38 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 08:42:33 AM PDT. Dependencies resolved.
    ================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size
    ==================================================================================================================================================================================================================Installing:
    kmod-wl x86_64 6.30.223.271-36.fc33 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 10 k

    Transaction Summary
    ==================================================================================================================================================================================================================Install 1 Package

    I see that it is installing kmod-wl for the last kernel that would be installed if I did an update.

    [root@ws1 etc]# dnf update –allowerasing –nobest Last metadata expiration check: 1:21:41 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 08:42:33 AM PDT. Dependencies resolved.
    ================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size
    ==================================================================================================================================================================================================================Installing:
    kernel x86_64 5.12.7-200.fc33 updates 51 k
    kernel-core x86_64 5.12.7-200.fc33 updates 34 M
    kernel-devel x86_64 5.12.7-200.fc33 updates 14 M
    kernel-modules x86_64 5.12.7-200.fc33 updates 31 M
    kernel-modules-extra x86_64 5.12.7-200.fc33 updates 2.0 M
    Removing:
    kernel x86_64 5.11.19-200.fc33 @updates 0
    kernel-core x86_64 5.11.19-200.fc33 @updates 74 M
    kernel-devel x86_64 5.11.19-200.fc33 @updates 56 M
    kernel-modules x86_64 5.11.19-200.fc33 @updates 30 M
    kernel-modules-extra x86_64 5.11.19-200.fc33 @updates 1.9 M
    Removing dependent packages:
    kmod-wl-5.11.19-200.fc33.x86_64 x86_64 6.30.223.271-36.fc33 @@commandline 7.2 M

    Transaction Summary
    ==================================================================================================================================================================================================================Install 5 Packages Upgrade 14 Packages Remove 6 Packages

    Emmett