Ubuntu Networking :: Extracting Files For Ndiswrap Failing
Feb 8, 2010
is that my ar928x atheros wireless connection is severely slow. To fix it I've heard ndiswrap and so I've downloaded the XP driver from HP's support site (a pavilion dv7-1450us Notebook PC) and met a brick wall. The file is sp45222.exe and it contains seemingly no .bin .inf or .sys files that ndiswrap dearly requires. I've tried extracting it on a windows machine with UniExtract. This gives only three files one of which UniExtract can extract into a compilation of folders none of which have the required files. I've also attempted to use cabextract on my Ubuntubox, but not cabs come out. I have unshield, if that's relevant at all. What on Earth am I doing wrong?
I have a bunch of split Z files and I want to extract them but I cannot find how. To be more specific I have a file named foo which is compressed into files foo.0Z, foo.1Z foo.2Z. I have tried uncompress but does not work I have tried gunzip,gzip etc but no result either. Even 7zip will not do the work.
I have a backup of a Windows OS done by Clonezilla but would like to know if its possible to extract the files from a Windows computer from the backup CD where the backup was saved . Can this be done and what software will be able to help.
I am trying to extract a .tgz file. I have used the command tar - xvwzf filename.tar but I get the following error: gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors root@test:/datastore/Newfolder# tar -xvwzf filename.tgz
After having downloaded unrar, I find I can't actually use it to extract rar files. Whenever I use the command unrar e filename.rar, (obviously using the correct filename), I just get told there's no such file or directory.
I am using XFCE spin Fedora, so my default archiver is Xarchiver. I have downloaded a 2 part .RAR file, and when I used to use them in Windows, I would tell WinRAR to extract the first part, and then it would automatically start extracting part 2 if it was in the same directory. When I try to do the same in Xarchiver it tells me "An error occurred! Please check the 'Store archiver output' option to see it." I don't know what 'store archiver output' is or how to access it. What do I need to do to extract both components and successfully join them?
I'm trying to extract all files permissions and write them in a text file in order to use regular expression(using python) and search for world writeable files
I am new in Linux and I need to extract alot of zipped files (different format (e.g tar.gz, tar.gz2)) which are in subdirs and I do not want to go to each subdir and extract each file because it will take alot of time. Is there away to extract all files that are existing in dirs and subdir with "for loop" or is there a script that can do the job automatically.
Oftentimes, I want to restore a directory from a tar.gz backup file.When I extract the backup tar.gz, is there a way to make it only replace newer files in t directory?Currently, I have only been able to achieve this bydeleting the entire target directory and extracting the entire backup file. This is timeonsuming because the backups are sometimes hundreds of gigabytes.
I'd like to extract a single column from 5 different files and put them gether in an output file. I saw a similar question for 2 input files, and the line of code workd very well, the code is:awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$2; next} {print a[FNR], $2}' file1 file2I added the file3, file4 and file5 at the end, but it doesn't work. Does anyone know what do I have to do?
new to ubuntu and linux, and using Lucid 10.04 LTS ok, i'm trying to get XBMC going, and following a nice step by step instruction on wiki.xbmc.org, but now i'm stuck at this step... In Ubuntu the SVN Repositories are not automatically added. You must add them manually. First, download the SVN Repo Installer from: [URL] Extract it to the ~/.xbmc/plugins/programs directory. If this directory does not exist, run XBMC one time and then exit back to Ubuntu. The directory should now exist.
i ran xbmc once (after the video driver problem was solved, though it messed up my dual monitors, gotta figure that one out yet.) i got the zip file, it's in my downloads. now my newbness really shows... i can't find an 'extract' command for gnome, can't find the .xbmc directory using the file browser, can't figure out how to hunt for folders instead of files, and don't know how to look inside folders i don't have permission to, that is, i don't know if there's a 'sudo' like option for the file browser. i've been searching the forums, but without the correct search terms, i'm wading in an ocean. i really want to give ubuntu an honest try, but i feel like a foreigner. EDIT: btw, up to this point, the forums have been invaluable, you all are great.
I don't know almost anything about it so I was thinking of asking this question from the experts.I recently downloaded the xPUD 0.9.2.I LOVE that OS!It's simple,fast and smart.I just would like to add some other programs to it somehow.Is that possible for ex. extracting the image,modifying files,then remaking the iso?(Talking in Windows7)I would like to add some programs like Wine and some games also.Please reply as soon as possible because the xpud site is down for bandwidth exceeded.
I am trying to develop a method of reading files generated by other programs. I am trying to find the most versatile approach. I have been trying bash, and have been making good progress with sed, however I was wondering if there was a "standard" approach to this sort of thing. The main features I would like to implement concern reading finding strings based on various forms of context and storing them to variables and/or arrays. Here are the most general tasks:
a) Read the first word(or floating point) that comes after a given string (solved in another thread)
b) Read the nth line after a given string
c) Read all text between two given strings
d) Save the output of task a), task b) or task c) (above) into an array if the "given string(s)" is/are not unique.
e)Read text between two non-unique strings i.e. text between the nth occurrence of string1 and the mth occurrence of string2
As far as I can tell, those five scripts should be able to parse just about any text pattern. I am by no means fluent in these languages. But I could use a starting point. My main concern is speed. I intend to use these scripts in a program that reads and writes hundreds of input and output files--each with a different value of some parameter(s).
The files will most likely be no more than a few dozen lines, but I can think of some applications that could generate a few hundred lines. I have the input file generator down pretty well. Parsing the output is quite a bit trickier. And, of course, the option for parallelization will be very desirable for many practical applications.
I have an external drive that has been formatted as NTFS and I need to recover the files. For the most part, on windows, I can read the drive however When I'm copying, it interrupts with an I/O failure. Is there a way to copy the files from Linux and have it continue even if it has an error?
I have an hp laptop and i had ubuntu on it for 3 years. my hard drive started to fail a while ago (i had ubuntu 10 on it until 1 week ago) and a then it all went black...I took the laptop to a repair shop, they told me it was the disc, so i bought a new disc, installed it on my laptop and reinstalled the new ubuntu 11. so far so good. i have now a working OS, internet connection and i can in fact type this message.
The thing is: all my files are on the old drive, which doesn't load/boot/start/read anymore. I have tested it on some friends's pc, tried a few HD disgnostic tools, they all send the same message: "fail"
I then tried to mount my old drive (with all my precious files in it) on my laptop as an external drive (usb) hoping that ubuntu 11 could read it as an external usb key: it gets read by the system, but it shows no files at all. it also shows an error message saying the drive can not be mounted, with some "sdb1" thing. i am sorry but i'm really dumb when it comes to tech language.
Then i tried to boot it on start-up but i got the grub rescue> thing and nothing else, just a sad, blinking cursor to recover my files,i have also tried testdisk but couldn't understand very well how to use it, and then photorec, from which i recovered bits and pieces of files, with no name. some of them are just parts some of them are complete.
My problem is: i have to get access to my files, as I use them for work, i couldn't do a back-up recently and i have some real important deadline to meet... for which i need those files. is there any way i could solve the grub issue and have that drive load/mount again as external usb?
I've got a problem with a piece of code. Basically, I use my listRegularFiles function in two separate places in my code. The first time I run itit appears to work perfectly well. If I use it a second time, however, it blows a gasket. I'll post my code below, and if anybody has any ideas,Here's the code for listRegularFiles:
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and need to setup VPN connections to clients.
After configuring one of the vpn connections, I tried to connect but the connection fails with no specific errors.
Looking at the /var/log/messages file I get the entries as follows: ay 20 13:52:28 machielr-laptop pppd[3362]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5//nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded. May 20 13:52:28 machielr-laptop pppd[3362]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 May 20 13:52:28 machielr-laptop pppd[3362]: Using interface ppp0
I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) as a headless workstation, running a VNC screen. Worked perfectly for about 3 weeks, then suddenly, I lost the Drag and Drop capability, for all applications.
For example:
Dragging and dropping to move items on the desktop does not work. The item simply pops back to the original location. Dragging and dropping to move items from one folder to another does not work. Same behavior -- the item just pops back to the original location. Dragging and dropping Bookmarks in Firefox does not work. The attempted Drag and Drop is ignored. Copy and paste still works fine. The problem does NOT occur when using an attached monitor (primary display screen :0).
I suspected that the changed behavior was caused by an update (from Ubuntu Update Manager). I confirmed this with the following:
Reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 fresh from the live cd. Configured minimal networking and installed VNC server. Tested Drag and drop -- works okay Applied pending updates (116) from Ubuntu Update Manager Tested Drag and drop -- not working
I am using vnc4server and openssh-server installed from the repositories using Synaptic.
I got this working om my laptop but on my desktop this keeps going wrong, its an upgraded system to 10.04. Made a standard pptp connection using network-manager (and the connection is 100% fine, working on laptop and on windoooz machine) This is syslog any ideas, i reinstalled network-manager-pptp and pptp-gnome, but no go no go..
I am trying to write a little port knocking daemon that needs to see every failed connection attempt on every port on the system. The primary way to do this (as the Wikipedia page points out) is to monitor the firewall log file. I am using UFW and reading its output in /var/log/kern.log. Typically, when UFW blocks something, it prints a little line like this:
But it seems that whenever UFW experiences a significant "load" (my client sends eight packets over the span of about 25 seconds, not too significant if you ask me), it just kind of "gives up" after 10 or so attempts. Log messages stop appearing in kern.log. I know the packets are coming; wireshark confirms this.
It seems to me that a buffer of some sort is filling up, because if I give the system a breather and try sending my sequence again in, say, three minutes, it prints log messages for 10-12 straight attempts before giving up again. I've tried sending packets at longer intervals and reading from other logs like /var/log/messages, but none of this has helped. Does anyone have any idea why UFW would fail to log all blocked connection attempts?
I'm using Kubuntu 9.10, my pppd version is 2.4.5 and pptp is 1.7.2 I'm trying to connect to the iPredator VPN service, but I keep running into problems with LCP. I've tried using knetworkmanager, nm-applet, kvpnc and plain old text-based configuration to no avail. Here's a snippet of pppd's output:
[Code].....
(I've got "defaultroute" in my /etc/ppp/peers/ipred config file.) Any ideas what could be causing this? Could it even be my router? It claims to support PPTP, but considering it claims a lot of other things which aren't true, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the culprit.
I have an external HD attached to my desktop and setup as a shared resource. I want to be able to access it from my laptop as well. After much trying and drinking, I ended up with this in fstab:
//crackbox/seagate /seagate -o
then began giving me an error about not recognizing the file system type. I've been reading everything I can find and trying to get it to work, and have come up with very little. My fstab now contains this line instead of the above:
[code]...
Now, when I reload fstab with "sudo mount -a", I get this output:
# ls -1 *.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 01 - Last Rites-Loved To Death.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 02 - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 03 - Skull Beneath The Skin.mp3 [Code]....
i want to rename it to:
01 - Last Rites-Loved To Death.mp3 02 - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good.mp3 03 - Skull Beneath The Skin.mp3 04 - These Boots.mp3 05 - Rattlehead.mp3 06 - Chosen Ones.mp3 07 - Looking Down The Cross.mp3 08 - Mechanix.mp3
here is my RnD so far:
[Code]....
so it does show that i can run "mv" and reame the files the way i want. BUT...there are lots of spaces in each file, and hence when I append "|sh" to above command to have him actually rename the files, my "mv" command is failing. BTW, I tried exploring perl "rename" command, but I could not understand it's regex.
I am trying to connect to an OpenVPN connection using the gnome-network manager. I'd like to point out that using the configuration file in /etc/openvpn works perfectly but I have no way of knowing if the connection has dropped. When I set up the connection in the nm it connects for a few seconds then fails. The /var/log/messages file shows this: May 17 08:31:37 lucid64 kernel: [ 4594.043637] tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
My ubuntu system has been running really well until this morning - software update prompt appeared on the screen, so I ran with it and let it do its thing. A while after this, my WiFi network connection started failing. I've tried rebooting and then it can take up to five minutes or more for the password (keychain) prompt to appear. Once I have typed in the password the network connection starts to work. Then cuts out. Works. Then fails again.
