In addition to updating the mod-utils package, the new DEVFS may be
causing the problems with the sound cards and the ppp daemon. The new
device filesystem is very different from the old system and may break
things. There are warnings about this and a userspace daemon to try to
maintain backwards compatibility with older drivers that haven't been
updated. I haven't built/run a 2.4 kernel in a while so I can't speak to
specifics, but it is something to check up on.
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