wireless card does not work

[old noob]

hello i recenty started using fedora 9 and when i made the change evverthing installed fine except for my wireless card of which i have been trying desperatley to get up and running i navigated these forums and saw that i need to use ndiswrapper to get it working but when i get the driver for my
Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) i cant do anything to it.if i try to extract it i get an error message
the driver file is .exe and is a windows file

[Dangermouse]

Hi try right clicking on the exe file, and then click extract here, it should give you the driver, i know nothing of ndiswrapper though.

[old noob]

this is the error i get when i tried that:
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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/Alex/Download/sp39249.exe or
/home/Alex/Download/sp39249.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/Alex/Download/sp39249.exe.ZIP, period.

[bbfuller]

Hello old noob

Not all exe file drivers are self extracting executables. When they are not they won't unzip.

Sometimes it's possible to run the exe file under Windows and note the directory the files are being placed in.

Another strategy is this driver:

http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/Dell...A17_R174291.exe

which has been proven to work with the 4310.

You'll see the context in post #16 of this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=192496&page=2&pp=15

That driver will work with the unzip command. I don't know if it will extract by right click, but it will from the command line.

Post back if you have any questions.

[old noob]

after a little but of work with that driver i was able to get my card to work 15 minutes after i ate dinner. thank you very much. i spent 24 hours on that.