only 2 USB ports, to replace the one I had, (with which I
struggled for about 3 weeks), which had 2 USB ports and 2
Firewire ports, and it installed without problem, and
both ports are working fine.  The other card worked, but
each time I rebooted, the install failed, so that I had
to remove each USB port and controller, then reboot a
second time, at which point the computer reinstalled the
ports, but also installed another printer port, so that
the default printer changed each time the computer
rebooted.  Once we discovered that, it was simple to
correct each reboot, but too annoying.  Have you tried
another card?  I found the one I had trouble with ran
fine on a similar laptop running Windows 2K.