Followup: 2.2.1x unknown kernel messages in syslog; 2.4.0 doesn't init sound card

All, I installed 2.4.0 prerelease and the problem I was seeing w/ kernel: "seemingly random characters" went away. So it would appear that this is a 2.2 problem only. One thing I noticed in going to 2.4 was that my sound card initialization/parameters were/are not ava

2.2.1x unknown kernel messages in syslog

All, Running 2.2.19pre2 (but it happens w/ many previous 2.2.1(7-8) versions) built w/ egcs-2.91.66, while connected w/ ppp over analog modem to windows nt ras server; I get the following messages using ppp 2.4.0b4 (w/ MSCHAP-80) Dec 29 09:22:59 kodi pppd[905]: pppd 2.4.0b4 start