Re: LINUX Netgear Wireless driver

[Nick Leverton <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20080727134513.18aeb4e9@xxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Houghton  <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:15:27 +0100
>Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

I think I've also had some inside a .cab file, which cabextract dealt
with quite easily.

Nick
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