On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:23:43 +0100, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I > tried > both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: > ======================================================= > $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe > Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe > End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not > a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the > latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on > the last disk(s) of this archive. > note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive > unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or > wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. > > $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe > wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found > > All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) > ======================================================= > > Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't > recall > having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I > extract > the .sys files from in there?
The files can be compressed with whatever algorithm. So you can still try unrar and many others. Failing that, you can still try to extract it using wine. -- Jesús Guerrero
