Eee frustration…

All good things must come to pass I guess. Or perhaps I should just get a portable DVD burner.
The problem…
After getting my Eee up and running with the Sierra 881U card I find that now I’m getting a segmentation fault pretty much every time I boot up. I’m not sure why it would cease to work, but it has.
It’s not dead, and seems to work fine on my other laptops running Fedora 8 and OS X Leopard respectively, but on the Eee something goes horribly awry at boot time. The fix seems to be to F9 at boot up and factory restore the whole machine, then reload the driver, the scripts, so on and so forth. It’s a pain.
I’m looking around for an answer, but I’m coming around the idea that I may have to permanently go with a different OS. I like Eeedora and suspect I could get it to work eventually, but I’m taking off next week and had hoped to have it with me. Sigh.
The best thing I can think of doing at this point is getting a portable DVD burner/reader and starting fresh from the factory DVD (CD?). Or, if that doesn’t work, putting XP on it (gasp) until I get back from Alaska.
At least, and it’s no small thing, at least I’m learning a lot.
Aloha!