Hardware

Sony Vaio VGN-NR206e

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod...3#/downloadTab

Video Card Connector

I have had some video cards that require a special cable to hook up a monitor.... Arg. It was this cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMS-59

I ran accross some old network cards (Compay WLAN 200 ? )  that required a special driver for usb orino (sp?) wireless cards. Also need to load firmware for the card.

Here is a link about loading firmware on linux.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...e_drivers.html