I got it all installed just fine...and using Stephen's directions got it to boot under 2.6. I still can't install my netcard module...but it's a really old one, so maybe it just won't work. I ran modinfo and it says that it's a 2.4.23 module, even though i put linuxver=2.6.1 when i compiled it. I assume it's just too old of a driver...unfortunately i'm stuck with it for now though.