Reid, Before executing those commands, Your console has to be in the Desktop folder. When opened initially, it is in your personal folder. Do in the console $ cd Desktop Then $ ls should show the pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz. Only then try the tar commands Please send to the List, not directly to me. I'm travleing this week, rarely on line and others can help. MarvS On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Reid Sheeley <edrms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mr. Stodolsky, > > I am lost. Downloaded driver pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz and now unable to > decompress or install. What am I missing? The driver sits on my desktop, > newly downloaded. Now what? Step by step if possible thank you Reid > > Response 1 (recommended by instruct in modemdata) > > woody@woody-desktop:~$ tar zxf pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz > > tar: pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.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 > > Response 2 > > woody@woody-desktop:~$ gzip -dc pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz | tar.gz > > gzip: pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz: No such file or directory > > bash: tar.gz: command not found > > > > Response 3 > > woody@woody-desktop:~$ tar xvf pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz > > tar: pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > Response 4 > > woody@woody-desktop:~$ gzip -dc pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz | tar xf- > > tar: Old option `f' requires an argument. > > Try `tar -help' or `tar -usage' for more information. > > gzip: pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-9.tar.gz: No such file or directory > > > > Rec'd suggestion of 'tar xf pctel*.tar' and 'tar zxf pctel*.tar.gz and tried > without luck. Same type messages still come up. Downloaded with XP (only > internet access) than copied to linux (ubuntu) desktop. Doesn't show .gz > ext. in MS but does in linux. > > > > >
