Hello JeeBee,
Yep.. your kernel needs to be updated. See the how-to:
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
if you haven't done this before.
The first link I referred you to about the patch was just a submission of corrrections to be compiled into the kernel. These corrections weren't actually implemented in a public release candidate until 2.6.18-rc1. See http://lwn.net/Articles/190305/ and search for alc883 in the text.