Im trying to install ndiswrapper to get my Dynex Wireless USB adapter to work so i can have internet... I took a screen shot of what it tells me after i extract. http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...reenshot-1.jpg

I also took a screenshot of the output of iwconfig http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...Screenshot.jpg can someone plz tell me wut im doing wrong? Also when i look under device manager i see it listed in there i took a screenshot of both the tabs there...
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...nel/Dynex2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...nel/Dynex1.jpg

Well, there is a number of things you are doing wrong here.

First, you are not actually changing the directory in your first command. You are just typing in the directory you want to go to, and it is telling you that it is a valid directory, but nothing is happening. You need to use the "cd" command to actually change to that directory.

Presumably, the file you want to extract is actually in that directory, and when you get there the second command will work. But as it is, the file is not in the directory you are running the command in, and so you are getting an error. Of course, you also have two periods in the file name there, which is going to be wrong as well.

Yes i noticed the two periods and tried it with out them and got the same error so i figured it had to be something else... i will try the cd command... thank you... i suppose i would but "cd /media/windata" to change to that directory?

Ok so i went ahead and used the cd command to change to that directory and it that worked.. but then when i tried to get the ndiswrapper to extract i encountered some errors in my terminal. i took two screenshots of the same thing i just scrolled down in one of them.. http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...reenshot-1.png
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...Screenshot.png

Im not sure where to go from here... Please help.

I assume that your trying to extract the files to /media/windata which I assume is a windows filesystems. Windows filesystems can not use linux permissions. Try extracting to your home directory.

Umm.... its a fat32 drive... so i thought it didnt matter.... but ill try moving it to my home folder... but then when i use the cd thing to change to that directory would it be "/root/home/"?

A users home is typically /home/username. roots home is /root.
A shortcut for a users home is ~/

But im not a user i logged in as root.

root is still a user, so you can still use ~/ to refer to root's home directory.

The error there definitely looks to be due to the FAT32 drive. I should have mentioned that initially when I saw the directory name you were trying to get to. Linux can read and write well enough to FAT32, but the file system does not support the advanced permissions functions that Linux relies on to operate properly.

You need to move the ndiswrapper tar.gz file to /root, and then extract it again there.

The command (as root) would be something like:

Then extract it again with the command you used previously, since that looked like it worked out alright for you.