I had a slink system with 2.0.36 kernel, and wanted to update to 2.2.X kernel. I updated the suggested packages listed on the debian page that discussed known issues, and then updated the kernel. No problems with that. Netscape seemed to work ok, but when I tried to download any packages, it would only download a small amount of data and stall. I thought it might be a problem with packets not clearing.
So, since that page said all these problems were cleared up in unstable, I upgraded to potato with "apt-get dist-upgrade". Same problem. But, if I use the 2.0.36 kernel, downloads are fine. I recompiled the 2.2.X kernel to make sure I have ppp support, and couldn't see anything else that might cause this in the kernel config menu. I'm doing something wrong, but what? Ideas / suggestions? thanks