After a bit of frustration with the sound quality on Linux, I decided to go back to ground I’m more familiar with me: I installed FreeBSD 5.3 onto the laptop. Curiously enough, FreeBSD has a project similar to the aforementioned ndiswrapper: called Project Evil. Surprisingly (somewhat) to me, it appears to work as well. I’m typing this on the newly installed FreeBSD as we speak. Curiously enough, I am having some difficulty with the sound using FreeBSD as well, but I have yet to do real tests. I’ll keep you all posted on how it works out.