Today, for work, I embarked on the task of fixing wireless on a Dell Inspiron 1525 running 32 bit Windows Vista (Why? I have no idea or choice.) My first step was to hit up the Dell driver site, which listed 4 or 5 drivers, so of course I got them all since I could not for the hell of me figure out what model of card this was, being in Windows. I found out I could queue up these downloads and download them as either a .zip file or a .tar.gz file, so I choose the linux friendly option of .tar.gz.

Eager to get to work, I then tried to open the tarball with Nautilus. Whoops. It hadn''t finished downloading yet and I was getting an error. After I waited several more minutes for 150mb of drivers to download I tried opening it again with Nautilus. Whoops. Oh, wait, this time the download was completed and there were no errors! Thinking it would be about the funniest damned thing if my newest theory was correct, I checked out the tarball with file.

The results?

landon@Goliath:~/Desktop$ file My_Downloads_List145815.tar.gz
My_Downloads_List145815.tar.gz: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

I just unzipped your tarball, Dell.