If a supposed Name.tar.gz package fails to unpack with $ tar zxf Name.tar.gz it may have been automatically gunzipped by some auto-service on your System. So instead try: $ tar xf Name.tar MarvS On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you then please send me the file which you cannot unpack and the > command (perhaps several) which you have tried to use? > > Can you please tell us the FULL http address of the file which you have > downloaded? > > Have you downloaded directly to Linux or via Windows? > > If via Windows, how did you transfer the file to Linux? > > > You MUST have done something wrong. Please HELP US trying to find what by > giving complete and accurrate replies to our questions! > > > On my laptop, which is NOT the linmodems.technion.ac.il server, here is what > I have just done(3 commands, wget , ls -l, tar zxvf): > > [localhost] /home/goldberg > wget > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/Ubuntu/slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz > --16:16:15-- > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/Ubuntu/slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz > => `slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz' > Resolving linmodems.technion.ac.il... 132.68.73.235 > Connecting to linmodems.technion.ac.il|132.68.73.235|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 1,326,298 (1.3M) [application/x-gzip] > 100%[====================================>] 1,326,298 312.86K/s ETA > 00:00 > > 16:16:19 (318.10 KB/s) - `slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz' saved > [1326298/1326298] > [localhost] /home/goldberg > ls -l slamr* > -rw-r--r-- 1 goldberg users 1326298 Apr 27 19:50 > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz > [localhost] /home/goldberg > tar zxvf slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/ > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/wvdial.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._slmodemd > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/unloading > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._unloading > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/setup > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/1st_Read.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/CountryList.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._slamr.ko > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/slamr.ko > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/Smartlink.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/ungrab-winmodem.ko > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._Smartlink.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._CountryList.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._wvdial.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._ungrab-winmodem.ko > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._setup > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/slmodemd > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._1st_Read.txt > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/.#setup > slamr-2.6.27-7-generic/._sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb > [localhost] /home/goldberg > > > > > Jagathy K.S wrote: > >> Yes i got real one, about the file name, >> maybe my typing problem. >> Sorry for that. >> You think that I did some weired? Oh no. >> Three I >> did the same thing, downloading, >> trying to exract. Same result. >> >> On 5/3/09, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> Jagathy >>> >>> >>> Please give the complete URL (http:/... ) where you got the file >>> >>> slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz which gives you a problem. >>> >>> Furthermore: in your first post to this list >>> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg00993.html >>> you wrote: >>> According to this I searched for slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz, But >>> cannot get only get slamr-2.6.24-7-generic.tar.gz. I unpack >>> (slamr-2.6.24-7-generic.tar.gz) with >>> tar zxvf slamr*.tar.gz >>> but I got an error message like this >>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>> child returns status. >>> Error exit delayed from previous errors. >>> >>> There you say you could not find 2.6.27.7 , only 2.6.24.7 , but today you >>> cannot depack 2.5.27.7 . >>> >>> Are you using the same URL fo find both? >>> >>> On the linmodems.technion.ac.il Web server there only is 2.6.27.7, not >>> 2.6.24.7: >>> [phep2] /home/goldberg > find $L -name slamr-2.6.2*-7-generic.tar.gz >>> >>> /var/www/html/linmodems/packages/smartlink/Ubuntu/slamr-2.6.27-7-generic.tar.gz >>> >>> That one gets depacked without any problem. >>> >>> This brings me to guess that you have downloaded your slamr* file from >>> some >>> unreliable place rather than, as instructed several times, from >>> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/Ubuntu >>> >>> I furthermore suspect that you did something weird just before giving >>> your >>> command tar zxvf etc... , but it is not worth spending time on that if >>> you >>> agree to do EXACTLY and ONLY what ModemData.txt tells you to do. >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > >
