ndiswrapper confusion

[Tophue]

I'm brand new to linux so please bear with me.

The installation page for ndiswrapper says this:

"Download the latest version of the ndiswrapper sources from here and
extract it with the command

tar zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz

This will create ndiswrapper-version directory. Change to that
directory and run

make uninstall
make

Login as root and run
make install"

I'm assuming it means to enter all these commands into the terminal? When I do I get this output:

chris@chris-laptop:~$ tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.43.tar.gz
tar: ndiswrapper-1.43.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

So i can't even get past the first step. I get the feeling that I'll have to extract .tar.gz files a lot so I'd like to get some clearance on how to do this.

I've tried to find guides online on how to do this, but so far none have been really clear for someone like me who's never used linux.

If someone could help out that would be terrific

[jayhawk]

Re: ndiswrapper confusion

One way to open the *.tar.gz file is to use Ark. If you right-click on the file, there will be an option to Open with Ark. You should also be able to click on the file and it should open Ark automatically. Once Ark is opened, you can go under Actions->Extract... and it should allow you to extract the file and it will create the folder for you.

The reason why you could not run tar yet was because the file was also gzipped. You would need to run gunzip on the file then run tar. At least that is what I recall.

Once you get the folder opened, you will need to go into the folder and run the make commands under root (sudo).

Good luck!

Buran

[f1rem0th]

Re: ndiswrapper confusion

failing that, just unock all sources in your sources.list.

theres a workign version of ndiswrapper on there.