Help! I cant find drivers for my AMD Athlon X2 64

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borat

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Ok so the long and sort of it is here are my computer specs:

Toshiba Satellite d500
AMD Athlon X2 64 processor
3GB RAM, 250GB HDD
ATI Radeon graphics

It was originally installed with Windows Vista Home Edition but did not come with an installation or recovery disk, it only had a partition on the disk, to make my own recovery disk which i failed to do because im just that stupid lol anyways at some point my computer got infested with viruses and i decided to format it and installed Windows XP on 30 GB and Linux Ubuntu on 170 GB(i still have raw space on my drive) anyways the problem is that now i cant connect to my home internet cuz i dont have the drivers, i cant find the audio, video nor the network controllers for either XP or Linux. I have internet at home but the laptop cant even identify the wireless signal, neither XP nor Ubuntu...i tried downloading some drivers that i found on (www.opendrivers.com) and the sound seems to work a little cuz i can hear the audio when i play "Theme Hospital" on XP and the startup sound also plays back on both partitions(XP & Linux) but it cant seem to playback mp3 nor video. Help me resolve these problems:

1. Audio, Video and Network Controllers that will work on my XP partition

2. Audio, Video and Network Controllers that will work on my Linux partition

3. How do i connect to my home wireless signal on my Linux Ubuntu partition

4. The neither the Linux nor the XP can go into hibernate or stanby mode, is there anyways to change this
 
Are you sure thats the model number of the laptop? Look on the bottom for a sticker with the model number on it. I just looked on toshiba website and couldbn't find it.
 
AMD Athlon X2 64 processor
3GB RAM, 250GB HDD
ATI Radeon graphics
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". . . it only had a partition on the disk, to make my own recovery disk which i failed to do . . . anyways at some point my computer got infested with viruses and i decided to format it and installed Windows XP on 30 GB and Linux Ubuntu on 170 GB . . ."

Sounds more like a Walmart special Satellite C655D-S5084! Welcome to Linux, nonetheless!

Not wiping the hard drive clean (probably because there was no restore partition -- corroborates the Walmart theory) means there is still a good possibility of hard drive corruption, which could partially explain your problem, borat. 64-bit processor and 3GB RAM is in your favor. ATI graphics and being a newbie to Linux are not favorable.

Ubuntu is not a bad choice. However, I recently installed and tried the new Fedora-14-LXDE and found that it rocks!

But first you need to solve your hard drive problem. Without a Windoze backup (boo hoo & lol!) the best choice is to either buy a new hard drive or do the following:

Begin by downloading an early version (1.3.5) of SystemRescueCD at sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/1.3.5/)

A person could download the ISO file and burn it to a CD, but if no CD burner, do as described below (your choice).

Next, get UNetbootin from the same source (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/). Then make a bootable small USB Flash Drive using UNetbootin and the sysresccd-x86-1.3.5 ISO file, both just downloaded.

Set your system BIOS to boot to USB first, then boot to your new System Rescue CD USB stick.

After it boots, SysRescCD wants you to hit defaults (hit Enter) a couple times. When you end up at the multi-colored prompt on the page asking user to enter either "startx" or "wizard," type in the following command

PHP: 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 conv=notrunc,sync

This will destroy all trace of any Windows File System, wiping your entire hard drive with zeros. It will take a while, depending on the size of your hard drive, so go make a sandwich or something. When it's done, you'll see some statistics after a statement that there is no "more space on drive" and the size of your hard drive.

Don't bail out yet!

At the same prompt, type in the desired "startx" and Enter
This brings up the XFCE mouse then a yellow-colored terminal.
In the yellow-colored terminal, type the command "gparted".

Partition your hard drive. If you don't know how, use the Slackware basic strategy of
one partition for root ( / ) -- 10GB (or to copy DVDs use 15GB), use ext4 file system;
one partition for swap -- one gig should do; and
one partition for /home -- most or all of the remainder
(keep some unallocated should you desire to expand one or add a partition later).

NOTES: In the OS install, when partition dialog pops up, choose Manual and then either Edit or Modify for each partition created previously with gparted, telling it to yes, use the partition, format it using ext4 file system for / and /home; swap should be okay. So, write down how you partition, noting /dev/sda1 or sda2 or sda3, size, label (if any), and file system (ext4).

It's easy. When done partitioning, simply enter the command "init 6" in the yellow terminal window and reboot follows.

Best wishes!
 
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