Re: LINUX Netgear Wireless driver

[Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:15:27 +0100
Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Vic Russell wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to use my Netgear WN121T wireless adapter in Ubuntu. I
> > can't find a LINUX driver but I understand that I can use a Windows
> > driver using a particular program. However, the Windows driver is
> > contained in a .exe file. I have therfore run the .exe in a Windows
> > system and aborted the setup so that I can get the stuff unpacked.
> 
> Those .exe files are often self-extracting archives - which should be 
> able to be opened using 'unzip' on a Linux system. Try 'unzip -l 
> <filename>.exe' to see if it will open it.

There are other types of self-extracting archive. I'm pretty sure rar
ones are common and that they can be extracted by unrar, and I think
some are compatible with cabextract. The "file" utility should tell you
if it's a SEA which Linux can read.

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