On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick 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? > > > > what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending?
$ file -z wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit I tried replacing the .exe with .zip but had the same results. > Self-extracting ZIP (and other archive format) files from DOS, > Windows, OS/2, etc are usually an executable program with ZIP file > appended. The stub program knows to seek to the end of its executable > data to look for the archive it is to extract and unzip (etc) are able > to detect this stub and bypass it. > > I googled the file wg511v2_3_2.exe and downloaded it. It is a > InstallShield program, containing an MSI containing a CAB. AFAIK there > are no Linux programs that are able to unpack -current- versions of > InstallShield. > > I am on Windows XP right now (at work), I have unpacked the contents > and can email them to the OP or upload somewhere if you'd like. Let me > know. Thanks Paul! How do you unpack the contents in WinXP? If you run the .exe it just installs it/them all over the fs, right? I would be grateful for .sys and .inf files please. Either email them off list or upload them somewhere and let me have a URL to download them. This is where the original .exe came from: ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg511v2_3_2.exe -- Regards, Mick
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