I haven't posted on this page for some time, in fact i'd forgotten that it existed at all! The laptop now has a dead screen and no battery, and I really only keep it as a backup. Last week I installed ubuntu linux "hoary hedgehog" and it went on fine - I think it even recognised the sound card, but i'll get back to you on that, as I didn't have any sound files to test it with.

as expected it didn't recognise the pcmcia network card, but as i've got that working before on other linux distro's i'm confident that it I can get it to work.