On 04/02/13 08:38, Alan Pope wrote:
On 04/02/13 04:03, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
In my unending search for ways to implement the wireless driver on my
converted Compaq machine, I have found the recommended driver on HP's
website, and it comes in an MS-DOS .exe package which ndiswrapper cannot
use because the latter needs to access certain component files in the
package.
It's probably just a self extracting zip file. You can find out what
it is with the "file" command:-
file <thing.exe>
You'll probably be able to unpack it with unzip:-
unzip <thing.exe>
Cheers,
I'm glad I have several machines, so the one I'm writing on (a Lenovo)
is not the one I'm talking about (the Compaq). I had to revert the
latter to 3.5.0.22, because on startup this morning in 3.5.0.23, its
Ethernet interface was disabled and unclaimed. Evidently all my
tinkering with drivers has knocked it about a bit. I uninstalled
3.5.0.23 via Synaptic. Hopefully when the machine updates to 3.5.0.23
again, the problem will not recur. Now, regarding your suggestions,
unfortunately, it seems that you can have a package sitting in plain
view on the desktop but the terminal will keep telling you "no such file
or package." This rather stops me in my tracks.
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