Ah shoot, I should know better than to respond after having a few beers.
As Robert pointed out, modules are absolutely not supported in PAE
kernels. That not only includes sym and usb, but also acpi (which is
automatically loaded at boot). If you still want to experiment with
the sym driver,
Ok I've now got problems with the compiled kernel, I get panics on my
multiple cpu machine on boot just after boot before the prompt is
reached. It's a lock on cpu #2 ( I believe cpu 3 ).
Unfortunately I don't have the exact message nor do I have a kernel dump
as this machine is meant to be a