i just bought xandros desktop deluxe 3.0 and put it on a r3000 compaq notebook. it does not have my wireless driver or sound driver and i cannot find a site that has it. the wireless driver is 802.11b/g WLAN with 125HSM/SpeedBooster and the sound card is soundmax with integrated digital audio. neigher work and i dont know what to do...help im new to linux

In regards to the wifi - you'll have to see which chipset your card uses. Do a google search for "linux drivers <model of wifi card> and you should be able to find out which chipset your card uses. From there, you'll have to do a search to find out if there are linux drivers for that chipset. If so, then look for the drivers and installation instructions for those drivers. If there are no linux drivers for your card/chipset, then you might be able to use ndiswrapper to use your windows drivers for that card in linux.

I haven't used ndiswrapper, but have successfully installed an SMC 802.11b pcmcia wifi card using the atmel chipset/linux atmel drivers. I'm sure someone else will happen by that has more info on ndiswrapper. You could also help everyone by providing the Make & Model of your wifi card, and what version it is, if any; i.e. my card was Make=SMC, Model=2632W, Ver=3 (there was a ver 1 and ver 2 that used a different chipset than the ver 3).

im pretty sure my wireles card model is BCM4712 but i dont know for sure. ive tried all the drivers from the broadcom site and none worked. it really sucks. and when i try the ndiswrapper i do it and it tells me it didnt install. i got lucky once and it worked but i dont know how to turn it on with linux.

also what kernel is xandros 3.0 deluxe

i have a r3000 and i have both working. the sound is just nforce audio (kernel module or nvidia module) and for the wifi i used ndiswrapper with the windows driver