That hand-me-down laptop I got my hands on? I installed Kubuntu on it this evening. For the most part it went well, but for the fact that I cannot get either of the Orinoco wireless cards working that I’ve tried in it. I’ve Googled, I’ve dug through the Ubuntu forums… nothing. The damned laptop sees the card, loads drivers, and… promptly turns off the lights on the card and gives up.

I just spent well over an hour fighting with the damned thing, and now I’m through. I’m supposed to be relaxing, dammit, not feeling like I’m at work…