Hiya Camera.Ken.
Ubuntu is pretty solid, and the behavior you mention is unusual ( in my opinion ).Your machine is old enough that you may have problems even with XP......and I can remember having to descend to dos to get windows going on some of the old buggers ( "terminal and cli is your FRIEND").
EDIT: Did a little googling (sp?), you might wanna look at this (http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/hardware/hpnw8000/ )
Ubuntu is pretty solid, and the behavior you mention is unusual ( in my opinion ).Your machine is old enough that you may have problems even with XP......and I can remember having to descend to dos to get windows going on some of the old buggers ( "terminal and cli is your FRIEND").
EDIT: Did a little googling (sp?), you might wanna look at this (http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/hardware/hpnw8000/ )