Issue:
HardDrake GUI does not recognize support for more than 64Thousand colors.
Mitigation:
Used console version of HardDrake to set resolution/color depth to 1024x768x24bit

Issue:
CISCO AP350 Wireless PCMCIA card does not connect to network, even though Mandrake Move (linux on CD) worked with the card.
Mitigation:
Downloaded the latest pcmcia_cs source and the Cisco AP350 drivers, and re-built the pcmcia card services support for linux, and all is well.

Issue:
USB serial (rs/232) adapater, and USB keyboard/mouse adapter did not work
Mitigation:
none yet. Still experimenting. May have to rebuild the USB support from source.

Issue:
56K internal Modem is not detected
Mitigation:
none yet. Still need to try the latest linmodem implementations. The linmodem support shipped with mandrake linux 9.2 does not support the modem.

Issue:
Power Management not functioning
The system batteries die out very quickly under linux. Other support sites cite the linux support for APM to be inadequate for managing the power of this laptop.
Mitigation:
None yet. May try re-compiling the kernal, to see if the pre-compiled kernel's configuration is the source of the problem.

Overall, Linux on the laptop is very fast, and stable. I am still looking for other linux distributions to use instead of mandrake, and the Mandrake Linux is not well suited for laptops.

However, the Mandrake Move (which is designed to operate solely from a bootable CD-ROM works much better than the full distrobution did, as it supported the wireless network card, and allowed for unencrypted association with wireless networks. The encryption did not seem to work, but this may be due to my understanding of how linux configures encryption on wireless NICs.