Re: SuSE and modules

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Hi, I'm probably being overcome by my own ineptness here but I wonder if 
> anyone can help out with this.
> 
> I want to try to use a SCSI card on my SuSE system. SuSE very kindly 
> provide a floppy with various modules on it. I see there is a file called 
> scsi-mod.gz but I'm having trouble unzipping it. If I do gzip -d 
> scsi-mod.gz it just seems to change the file name to scsi-mod without the 
> .gz extension. Running gzip on this file then complains that it isn't in 
> zip format.

The "file" command is ideal for things like this.  From a console type

file filename

Where filename is the file you don't recognise.  If it says data you're
screwed, normally it'll tell you exactly what it is.  extentions are a lame
way to associate files with 'type' the /etc/magic database used by the "file"
command has been used since before DOS existed.

I suspect you'll find this is a loadable module or a tar.

Damion

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