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No luck - the kernel doesn't see the USB memory stick.  And now Network Manager won't recognize the wireless network interface (it did the day I installed) and the computer won't sleep.  So, I think this kernel is a bust.  I'll try compiling one myself - haven't done that in 10 years, but hey

Thanks for the help everyone.  I consider this unsolvable.

Tagging along - I'm having problems with the USB memory stick, but am not worried about automounting until I can manually mount it.  I've got a thread elsewhere.  Thanks.

Thanks, read it yesterday and today it is very full, but very specific to his/her problem.

How to tell if the kernel even sees the USB stick?  What /dev would it be, and which modules could I look for?
I don't think it knows about it.

FYI, this is an old VIA motherboard with an Intel P3 1ghz cpu.  I fear that the driver was removed from this kernel build.  And, there is no network access until I can access the USB stick with password (63 chars, symbols, whitespace chars, not printable.)

Thanks

conky - thanks for the help, this did the trick:

own_window_argb_visual yes

The HOWTO linked above is a discussion, not a HOWTO. 

Ahri, please post your detailed changes, including new default configuration files, if you're able to make the necessary changes.

Info is info.  Here's a copy:

A) Install Opera
1) Download Opera, choose Ubuntu as the distro: http://www.opera.com/download/
2) Open a terminal and navgate to the folder where the Opera .deb file resides.
3) Type sudo dpkg -i opera<tab key>.deb. Pressing the tab key will fill in the rest of the overlylong unix filename for you. If you get a dependancy error message type sudo apt-get -f install.
4) Right-Click on the desktop and select Create Launcher (shortcut). In the command section browse for Opera in File System/usr/lib/opera/8.fxxxx/opera. The icon is in /usr/share/opera/images. Right-click on your new Opera icon and select add to panel.
5) In Opera select from the menu tools/preferences/advanced/network/proxy servers/. Tick the box in the HTTP section and type 127.0.0.1 for the IP address and port number 8118.

B) Install Tor
Open up a terminal and type sudo apt-get install tor

C) Install Privoxy
1) Open up a terminal and type sudo apt-get install privoxy
2) Type sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config and paste the following line at the top, including the full stop: forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . Save the file.

D) Switch between direct and anonymous mode
1) Tor and privoxy start automatically on Ubuntu sytems. To browse or post anonymously in opera select Tools/Quick Preferences/Enable Proxy Servers
2) Test your privacy, visit http://www.ipbrowser.net/. If your ISP internet provider doesn't show up you're anonymous! Browsing will be slower but your IP is only recorded when you post, not when you are just reading. Tor servers may be operated by the security services of various countries too so don't use Tor for very strong anonymity.

For Firefox users
Start at point B. To switch to anonymous mode go Edit/Preferences/General/Connection Settings/ and tick Manual Proxy Configuration. There is a FireFox plugin to switch between direct and anonymous mode SwitchProxy. As before the details of the Tor proxy are 127.0.0.1 port 8118

Easy:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

line 12 in my copy reads:
set default="4"

where 4 is the 5th menu entry (index begins counting at 0) and is Windows.

Unfortunately, the file will revert every time grub is updated, such as when an updated kernel is installed.

Bringing in Xfce 4.8 didn't update everything...

I downloaded from debian experimental:
exo-utils (0.6.0-2)
libexo-common (0.6.0-2)
libxfce4util4 (4.8.1-1)
libxfce4util-bin (4.8.1-1)
libxfce4util-common (4.8.1-1)
libxfconf (4.8.0-2)
libxfcegui4 (4.8.1-3)
libthunar-vfs-1-common (1.2.0-2)
libthunar-vfs (1.2.0-2)

xfce-keyboard-shortcuts (4.8.0-1)
includes updated shortcuts, so I copied my current configuration file before applying this.

libxfce4menu is still at 4.6 in the debian repository, and I can't tell if there is an updated source file at the xfce site because the naming conventions are different.  Perhaps 4.8 will land in experimental tomorrow.

Edit:

After a logout / login:
* The "About Xfce" dialog shows it as version 4.8.0
* /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
changed, but not my local user copy
* The applications menu now has multiple copies of web browser, terminal, ... back to the .desktop files I guess.

I was hoping that the new Thunar could mount / unmount my network mounts, but no such functionality yet.

I re-installed the menu-xdg package, and tried editing /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.  The xfce-applications.menu file gets updated automatically.

In applications.menu, I changed the top level apps from exo-* to what they used to be, e.g. xfce4-terminal.desktop.

Next I had to edit /usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal.desktop to apend X-Xfce-Toplevel to Categories.

Now I have Terminal back in my menu.

I think I got all the current versions of xfce4, but the "About" dialog shows version 4.6.

Warning! Warning! Danger Will Robinson!

A quick restart later, and I have NO MENUS.  The only thing I could start was a terminal instance.

I tried the following, which worked, but when I restarted again the link was gone, and a real file had been created in its place.  So, a few restarts were necessary?

sudo ln /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

I've also lost all my shortcut keys.  I'll have to re-crunchify my account / distro.