ubuntu on laptop

[Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe]

Hi

i've had trouble getting Mandrake 10.1 to work on a Solo Gateway laptop. 
But am now considering wiping harddisk and installing ubuntu. has anyone 
installed ubuntu on this type of laptop and what are my chances of getting 
it to work? Or should i rather stick with debian testing?

cheers
wendel

Errors at start-up were related to cpufreq and pcmcia. The pcmcia card 
works but the system breaks at shutdown during the step of shutting down 
pcmcia services with the error message Trying to free non-existent resource 
<000002e8-000002ef>


[root at emt1000 emt1000]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  no product info available
Socket 1:
  product info: "Xircom", "CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56",
"CEM56", "1.00"
  manfid: 0x0105, 0x110a
  function: 2 (serial)

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Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe
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