OK, i will do this after work.  I have some general questions though. 1) tar is like zip correct? 2) My home directory is the same directory I would be in when i first open a terminal window? 3) gzip is the gnome version of say winzip? 4) when I am in the home directory "tar xzf rt2500-cvs*" is the command I run to extract? 5) what are switches? 6) I will end up making a new directory (folder) called rt2500-cvs-yymmdd? 7) why? 8) i do not think I understand tab completion in the terminal; cd rt2 then tab (not enter?) will show me or put me into the rt2 directory? (similar to cd c:\\windows\program files)? 9) why did i only need to type rt2 and not the entire thing? As far as what I think we should be doing next: It looks like yesterday we downloaded the ralink 2500 chipset drivers for ubuntu in the form of a tar file from serialmonkey.  the instructions you just gave me look to be extracting the tar files contents to a directory under my home directory.  Next would be to install or apply the driver so the OS knows its there and can use it.  My natural instinct would be to double click the install exe or run it through the command prompt.  I have a bad feeling though that there is are no exe files in linux.  So I must have to open a terminal and use some linux command similar to run or execute and point it to a certain file I just extracted in the rt2500 directory I just made. close? As much as I want to get away from using windows, it is so damn easy to use. <div>On 8/30/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com"> deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">cd ~ puts you in your home directory...  /home/jason  or whatever it is. ok now we will extract the tar.   a tar.gz file is a tar (TapeARchive) that is subsequently gzipped.  we can undo both in one swoop.  cd ~ tar xzf rt2500-cvs* the switxhes stand for eXtract gZipped File   (czf would create one...  tar is pretty straight forward)  you cna add v for verbose which will list all the files as it untars (tar xzvf etc)  Order does not matter on the switches This will create a subdirectory underneath your home dir... (like/home/jason/rt2500-cvs-yymmdd) (depending on the date the dir will change) Do you understand tab completion in the terminal?  As in from your home dir: cd rt2 (then hit tab) cd into that new dir and do a 'ls' to see whats in there.  What do you think we should do next?  Don't worry if you don't know, but poke around looking at filenames in that structure to see if you can figure it out. <div> <div>On 8/29/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> OK, I did all 3 of those steps and they seemed to have went well.<div> </div></blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>