On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> Problem: get a wireless card going properly in Kubuntu. The card is a RaLink
> RT2500.
> Therefore install windows driver with NDISwrapper
>
> Tried: Unzip. response:- unzip: cannot find zipfile directory
> install cabextract result:- not in respository
alan@bishop:~$ apt-cache search cabextract
cabextract - a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
It's in the repo on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. (Kubuntu & Ubuntu have the same
repo so it should be in yours).
> Google again for some more solutions.
>
> Currently trying to loop mount the .exe as per the Answer Gang's advice here
> <http://linuxgazette.net/issue82/tag/1.html> (mutatis mutandis)
>
> I am failing because I do not know the file type of an .exe file and am not
> succeeding in guessing it.
>
"file foo.exe" would tell you usually.
> So - if that is a good method to be trying to use, what is the filetype of
> an .exe file?
>
A DOS or Windows executable.
Cheers,
Al.
