Okay, so I managed to get Gentoo onto my little IBM Thinkpad 600E. A
lot of the import things work: sound, video, the mouse, USB/Joydev,
PCMCIA netgear (wired) and orinoco (wireless) cards, suspend/restore
(hardware based; haven't tried swsusp and see no reason to yet). I'm
having a bit of trouble with printing, but that's minor.

What doesn't work: I have an old Kodak DC210 with a flash card, and a
PCMCIA SanDisk flash adapter. When I put the card into the slot, it
recognizes it as a drive but doesn't recognize the FAT filesystem.
Worse yet, even if I run 'cardctl eject' on the socket, it locks up the
kernel when I pop the card out of its socket and replace it with a
different card-- and the only hints I have in /var/log/messages are
about udev deleting the device from /dev.

Also, I have a USB/Wacom pad that doesn't work, although the
USB/joystick does, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

What really surprises me, though, is that Wine works so well "out of the
box" that my one last reason for booting into Windows, namely Quicken (I
can't use Gnucash; my wife's a Quicken bigot), is more or less a thing
of the past.

Elf