[plug] debian woody and kernels

[sol]

Hi again,

I followed Tony and Carl's advice and made my laptop unbootable. 8-) But I'm 
pretty sure this has something to do with APM support for Vaios. I did some 
more trolling around for info on vaio install and found that they don't like 
2.4 kernels < 2.4.17 which is what I'm using and higher is better seems to be 
the verdict. 
2.4.18 (which is actually 2.4.17)  is the highest version of kernel source in 
the debian package directory. I was wondering if there are any pitfalls in 
getting non-deb kernel sources and compiling (specifically 2.4.20)???

I did this once some time ago and got my fingers singed....

regards,
sol