Gzip problem

[mjleedam]

Hi,

I am a complete newbie to linux so please bear with me.

I am trying to install my maudio midisport 4x4 interface.

I have found instructions on one of the threads and when I get to the unzip part I get an error message telling me that the file is not in gzip format:

matt@MES:/tmp$ tar xvzf usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
matt@MES:/tmp$

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

[taurus]

What's the output of this command?


file usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz

[mjleedam]

The output is:

matt@MES:/tmp$ file usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz: ASCII text

[taurus]

It's a text file. Where did you download it?

[mjleedam]

This is the link for the instructions:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6224184&postcount=60

The location as specified in those instruction is:

http://homepage3.nifty.com/StudioBreeze/software/bin/usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz

[taurus]

You may want to try to download it again because here is what I got after I downloaded it.


$ file usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Sat Aug 28 23:47:51 2004
So I unpacked it with


tar xvzf usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
cd usbmidi-20040829
ls -la
and here's the output.



drwxr-xr-x 3 taurus taurus 4096 2004-08-28 23:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 taurus taurus 4096 2009-04-03 13:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 6735 2004-08-28 23:45 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 2440 2002-09-23 03:40 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 10786 2001-12-11 10:05 Makefile.RedHat
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 2538 2004-06-25 10:12 Makefile.zaurus
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 3142 2004-05-16 00:35 README
drwxr-xr-x 3 taurus taurus 4096 2002-01-20 08:01 testing
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 56617 2004-08-28 23:44 usb-midi.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 taurus taurus 5835 2004-05-16 00:35 usb-midi.h

[mjleedam]

Thanks.

Will give it a try.

[mjleedam]

Don´t understand this one.

It still comes back as an ASCII file.

Any ideas?

[oldos2er]

How are you downloading it?

[taurus]

Try downloading it from a terminal.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

wget -c http://homepage3.nifty.com/StudioBreeze/software/bin/usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
tar xvzf usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
cd usbmidi-20040829

[mjleedam]

I had been using the command terminal originally.

I have just tried the command with the -c extension and got this:

matt@MES:/tmp$ file usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz: data
matt@MES:/tmp$ tar xvzf usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

For some reason it does not want to download as a zip file!?????

Out of interest, I have just downloaded another .gz file from sourceforge.net and that extracted fine.

[mjleedam]

Thanks for your help so far.

I have managed to get the midi interface working by using a different firmware download.

However, when I unplug and reconnect the device it isn´t recognised automatically and, of course, it is reassigned different bus and device numbers.

There are instructions here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4007105&postcount=37 for creating a hotplug, but I don´t know how to adapt these for my situation.

The interface firmware MidiSport4x4.ihx is in /etc/firmware.

What is the best way to go about this?

Thanks in advance.

[mjleedam]

With a little trial and error, I think I have solved my problem.

Thanks for your help.

:p