Man, it just seems like you're wasting a lot of time working on this when you've got a fully functioning 2.4.17 kernel that you've successfully built from source.
I don't know what these patches are that you're worried about, but IIRC, they have some security enhancements/fixes? How many users (besides yourself) are logging into your laptop (if this is still your laptop)? I'd just say put up a firewall that blocks all incoming service requests (if it's got an external IP) move along, and forget about it. There's too many other fun things to do on a system than recompile kernels all day. Know what I'm sayin? -c Praedor Tempus said: > Uh, I guess I'm now confused...if the mandrake kernel has the patch and > the kernel.org kernel doesn't...and the Mandrake kernel refuses to > boot (panics) but the kernel.org kernel boots up fine, then it would > seem that this patch cannot do anything to help the Mandrake kernel. > The Mandrake is broken in respect to the initial bootup but the > kernel.org kernel works perfectly. > > I guess I fear that applying this patch to the kernel.org kernel will > "break" it the way the Mandrake kernel is broken. -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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