I just had a peek, and I guess the new installer already figured that out. Which is good news.
Getting my wireless card going was a bit of an adventure. It uses the ipw-2200 package, but all I had to do eventually was download the firmware files and put them in /lib/firmware. I thought I was going to half to compile the drivers at first, but I caught a note in the how-to about how the latest kernels already have the drivers compiled in, and took a shot at putting in the firmware only and voila, it started working.
Any comments on using evolution vs. downloading Thunderbird? I also gotta figure out migrating (or even better, sharing) my moz and thunderbird profiles between my OS/2 system and the linux system on this laptop....