After reading this discussion I decided to try Aros on my Lenovo m57. Network card works straight out of the box, NIC was a no go. A shame I don't have a low profile NIC as it made a fast AROS box.
Tried AROS on my nforce2 shuttle box, booted up and came up with a RAM error when using my ATI 9200 card. I remembered from trying it sometime ago I had to delete the Nouveau driver. Once I had it booted fine, also have to manually select the nforce nic and was online with no problems from there.
Downside is it's a slower machine, with less RAM. Nevermind gives me a machine to play on :-)