On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, > As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and > converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow > the instructions given here in rather scattered form: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062 > I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential, as they say to do, > then I downloaded what is apparently the most recent driver: > http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.6/compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2 > > and the terminal said it had saved it with exactly that title. But I > can't extract it with a cd command, no matter how I phrase it, because I > get "no such file or directory". Why is that?
cd won't extract the file. For a 'tar.bz2' extension you need to pass the following command: '$ tar -jxvf compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2' whilst you're in the directory that contains the above file. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
