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installing madwifi wireless

Asked by jinxed

i have a intel mac g5.i have downloaded madwifi and a friend did the wireless with it. i do not know how to untar, and install it for my wireless. im a newbie so could u please help. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

or

tar -xvf filename.tar

use whichever on the file you downloaded

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jinxed (s0nic-llama) said : 		#2

chris@Jinxed:~$ tar -zxvf madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current.tar.gz
tar: madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current.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
chris@Jinxed:~$

didnt work srry lol

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

is the file in your direct path?

type in ls -l and print the results, tar can't find the file

did you download it to your desktop?

try cd Desktop

then run the command

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jinxed (s0nic-llama) said : 		#4

chris@Jinxed:~$ ls
Desktop Examples Music Other PIctures Programs School
chris@Jinxed:~$

chris@Jinxed:~$ ls
Desktop Examples Music Other PIctures Programs School
chris@Jinxed:~$ cd Desktop
chris@Jinxed:~/Desktop$

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

well you were running the command with

chris@Jinxed:~$ tar -zxvf madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current.tar.gz

which says that you were in your home directory

and your ls -l output shows that there is NO file there called

madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current.tar.gz

so try those commands again now since you are in the

chris@Jinxed:~/Desktop$

tar zxvf madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current.tar.gz

cd madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13-current

 ./configure && make

then

sudo make install

[enter in your password]

and that should be it

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