kernel-2.6.8-1.584 - smp vs. single - and errors and errors

[M.Clasen]

im using smp machine, 2xP3 1000mhz in a D6VAA Mainboard.

i got some errors with the 584 smp-kernel (no usbmouse, no eth0, no smb)
the use of the 584 standart (single cpu) kernel make no errors here, but
uses only one cpu. ok, its not an smp-kernel, but im wondering, because
the normal kernel boots up normal and the same smp-kernel fails ?!

since some days the normal way to get and build a kernel from kernel.org
seems to be changed - ok, i have to read a lot more about it, but a
normal smp-build of the 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org doesnt boot and has the
same problems as the 584 kernel what i tryed to boot here.

i read alreday about the missing initial shell, ya i got the same issues
and fixed it with a initrd and it was ok, but why ?!

maybe i should not use a fc3t2 in a day-by-day work, its a fight, but
all probs i got in the past were fixable, but the smp-problem here is
really present. i cannot fix it, coz i do not know why the standart
2.6.8.1 wont run correctly

next problem, is the missing kernel-devel. 
i use nvidia and vmware, what both needs a tree of the current kernel.
i cannot boot the normal 2.6.8.1 nor the current 2.6.8-1.584, compiled
or static. 

i was every time able to build and boot a normal kernel from kernel.org
for all my machines, i got never such errors in the past with rh or fc.

what informations do i have to provide to you out there ?! my dmesg ? my
bootlog ?

i`m in the need of help and im wide open for your requests.

regards from a rainy germany

Michael
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