Quote Originally Posted by Hayabusa
with building modules then, I know how to add module support into the kernel whel configuring it, that's the easy part (a dot as opposed to a check mark).

My question now is after selecting all these modules will a make kpkg for the kernel include and "install" these modules, or is there some sort of make modules procedure I need to follow?
Any of the modules that you are selecting in the make [menuconfig xconfig] screens will be made when you compile the kernel with make-kpkg you would only have to add the modules_image to the compile line when you have unpacked additional source code for something like alsa or lm-sensors to the /usr/src/modules directory tree. Then it would make the additional .deb(s) for you to install along with the kernel_image and if you build (and you should) kernel_headers .deb files.