For anyone who is having stability issues with the FC SMP kernel..
I built a SMP kernel (actually my first!!) yesterday using the 2.4.25 source from kernel.org and the .config file from the latest (2.4.22-1.2174) FC kernel.. I didn't change anything..
So far ( 24 hours later ) it has not hung at all and seems to be running quite fast.. I don't know what the difference is between 2.4.22 and 2.4.25 or if the FC dev team have made changes to the source but so far I am happy that I can now use a stable SMP kernel (and the PC powers off when shutdown :) )..
Later..