You'll want to make sure you run the snddevices program to make your new Ultrasound devs. With the 2.2.0-pre6 kernel my OSS started to work. Folks, this is the way laptops ought to be. The screen is bright, the system is faster than my desktop. There's a real actual potentiometer on the left side to adjust volume, so you don't need to do finger gymnastics and wait for the BIOS to change the volume.
Battery life is really good.
PC Cards get very warm while in use, I suspect the ventilation or conduction of heat near the PC cards could be improved. My previous laptop was a Winbook FX, and I tried out the Winbook XL2 as a replacement. Yeah, we know. You can't defeat it. We're working on it.