Hi, You need to unpack the file. A tar file is like a zip file and tar.bz2 is a tar file that was created using bz2 compression.
This should help: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/courses/programming/tar.html Sincerely, Mike -- Mike Brandonisio * Web Hosting Tech One Illustration * Internet Marketing tel (630) 759-9283 * e-Commerce [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.jikometrix.net JIKOmetrix - Reliable web hosting On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:40 PM, dr_ovalle wrote: > Hi everyone, I´m brand new to Linux, I bought few books and I´m > starting. > > I installed Sabayon 3.4f x86_64 on a laptop Acer Aspire 5050-4872. > It is very nice, but I have several problems, and I am trying to fix > the first one... > > It does not recognize my Wireless card. > > I tryied to install Madwifi, so I opened a root console, and typed: > > # emerge madwifi-ng > > It tryied to connect to the internet to download a driver madwifi-ng- > 0.9.4.tar.bz2, of course, there is not internet in that computer, so > I manually downloaded it in another computer running Windows XP, but, > the .tar file it downloads is madwifi-ng-0.9.4.tar.tar > > I copyied that file to /usr/portage/distfiles and tryied again the > same sentence: emerge madwifi-ng > > And it does not recognize the .tar.tar file and try to download > the .tar.bz2 file. > > Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, and could explain it to me > step by step ( I just have three days trying Linux, and I am not > academically inmerse in computers, just few books and magazines, and > I don´t speak english very well, so ) I need help. > > Thank you. > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email LINUX_Newbies- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
