Okay, I am thoroughly confused. I have been reading everything I can about FC3, ACPI, and kernels for days now. I do not know how to proceed. I am running FC2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and have not had any problems. I want FC3 and the latest kernel, however when I upgrade my kernel, even on FC2, I can no longer boot. It appears to be caused by ACPI. And, what's worse is that, if I disable ACPI at boot, then I cannot get my NIC working at all (using a Linksys WPC54G with Linuxant's DriverLoader). Worse again, everything that I find regarding ACPI simply says that there are "known problems" with various items (such as PCMCIA NICs, etc.) but nothing mentions a fix or exactly what the problem is. Everything I have read has pointed out that there are differences between the version of the kernel I have the latest and greatest kernel. Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone, or anything, that can tell me specifically what the differences are (i.e., they enabled ACPI and removed APM, etc.). I have read the changelogs at kernel.org but, truthfully, I do not understand enough about the kernel to benefit from them. I guess, at this point, I'm looking for some guru to tell me where to go next. I've just read so information that I am basically confusing myself. Now, the questions... Should I manually recompile my kernel, with something like 2.6.9, and disable, or enable, certain options (like ACPI and APM)? If so, is there any place to get a list of how things should be setup? I have read a ton of pages explaining HOW to compile the kernel, but nothing details the settings. And, as far as ACPI vs APM, was ACPI not even in 2.6.5-1.358? From what I've read, APM and ACPI don't exactly do the same thing, so I don't see how I could essentially "go back" to APM. And, even if I do, isn't APM going bye bye? Like I said, I'm just confused. Any help would be appreciated. Thanx, Ryan
