WLAN card, Installing recommened drivers.

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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#1
I installed a new wireless card last week, and today I got a email from the manufacture of the card. Saying that the Realtek Linux drivers will work, but for the best performance to follow the link, and download the drivers. So I downloaded the tarball, and this is what happens when I try to open it.

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$ tar -zxvf rnx-n300x_linux_v2.4.0.0.tar

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


Do I need a different archive manager?
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,959
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
You don't need the -z option.

Try

tar -xvf rnx-n300x_linux_v2.4.0.0.tar
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lagopus
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
#3
Eino,

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$ tar -zxvf rnx-n300x_linux_v2.4.0.0.tar
With the z option of the command, tar assumes the archive is a zipped tar file (common extension of those files is tar.gz or tgz)

Just try this:

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$ tar -xvf rnx-n300x_linux_v2.4.0.0.tar
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#4
Thank you that did the trick, I guess I need to break some old habits. Like some of the options.
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#5
Ok I opened the file and the readme file is about 6 pages long, They really go into to much detail.
I had to almost laugh at the release notes. Why the included with the driver is beyond me.
[2.4.0.0]

1. Fix Adhoc issue.
2. Fix issue: Correct RSSI, SNR, Noise calculation
3. Fix issue: STA cannot connect to OPEN-WEP AP if WpaSupplicant set
4. Add an ATE command for AUTOALC.
5. Add an ATE command for interpacket GAP.
6. Add an ATE command for ATE payload pattern.
Posts: 630
Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#6
I was mistaken on the drivers it's Ralink, and I just checked this version that I down loaded to the version I have installed, and they are the same. I'm glad I did this before going through installing the new drivers. I just saved myself some work.