2 more kernel problems, both solved fairly quickly. (1) Somehow, presumably in 'make menuconfig' for 3.17.0 , the real-time-clock option got unchecked, resulting in a "can't find hardware clock" error at start/shutdown. Perhaps it's a bug in menuconfig or perhaps the option got moved around ; since it's not new, I shouldn't have been asked about it during the dialog.
(2) There's been a sudden masking of 3.17.0 in favor of 3.17.1-r1 , now successfully running my machine. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca