[fallenapples]

I have a Toshiba Satillite A300 and I installed Ubuntu, however it will not recognize any usb ports or the wireless card and if I do connect it to an etherenet port is there a site I can get all the drivers updated or do I need the Toshiba Recover Disk?

[Jayce]

The Toshiba Recovery CD won't help you, considering that'll have the Windows side of drivers and whatnot.

What version of Ubuntu are you trying to install, exactly? I did a search of your laptop and found that USB ports were tested in Hardy and no errors were mentioned... so I can't imagine Intrepid and Jaunty didn't have similar results.

What USB devices are you trying out? Have you verified they work on that laptop in Windows?

[farinha]

Connect the usb drive and type "sudo lsusb" and check if your drives are recognized.

[fallenapples]

What is the most common program file extension e.g .dmg for Mac and what programs do I use and locate them to open them, also which program would be a better program to use than iTunes to sync my music and watch all format dvds?

[Saxon]

Depends what distribution it really depends on that, but for media management VLC player is ideal and it's the best solution on any platform period.