so I managed to install the new 2.6.8 kernel and boot it. I understand that this is more modular, or maybe I should say module oriented, so I have to load explicitly ethernet (or put it into /etc/modules).
my problem is that it looks like also usb has to be loaded as a module, isn't it so? and I've got only one computer at home, so I can't start this one, log in from the other (as I said, I haven't got the other one!) and try which module to load. you figure the situation: I boot it, I see that the mouse does not react at all, the keyboard is totally dead, I panic quite a lot more than the kernel, manage to wait five minutes hoping that most disc activity has come to a pause, then I push the switch and swear I won't start this again before being 100% sure this is not going to happen again. any hints? but please, with something like 95% accuracy... the machine is a iMac (early 2001), NewWorld, 750CX, 500MHz revision : 34.21 (pvr 0008 2215) thanks, Mario.
