Tried it

Knoppix noapm nopcmcia
boots fine... dont like via's sound... keeps making noise

tried it without the Noapm and works... seems like the wlan on the minipci card bus or the pcmcia in general is hated by linux

and no usb optical mouse works although it loads the usb drivers ok
NO Onboard Nic.... (Linux drivers on Hd for onboard nic.... I missed them at first glance)
.... I dunno

I want it to work... esp with my wireless but the pcibus is a pain


3.4 c't loads pci just fine... Cant get nic drivers installed and still unsupported audio noise... I cant ever get things to install.... Read only file system