I finally got up enough courage to upgrade to 2.2.1 and compile my own kernel. Well compiling the kernel was actually pretty painless, except that I tried to compile everything into the kernel the first time and made a huge kernel. The second time I took my time and moved lots of stuff to modules. The result was a small kernel and no zip. After moving all the files for zip access to the kernel (as mentioned in the digest archives) I was fully operational. Has any one managed to get a zip working from modules. Automatic modules loads at boot time failed as did manually loading the modules after booting up. Is there a bug in the ppa modules or is it somewhere else?
Cheers Matt