I came down to Linux Caffe to work today. So far no real work done as it turns out the Orinoco Gold network card can't be loaded. Have tried it with both Kubuntu and Knoppix, neither recognised it and both crashed whenever I touched the touchpad.

Apparently I'll have to upgrade to pcmciautils in order to get things working... sigh. Still no luck with the nVidia driver either, but the vesa driver is working okay (nv just corrupts the whole screen horribly).