Well, 2.6 up and running on my main system. Some snafu's.
pcmcia-cs which were the drivers I have been dependant on up to now (issues with the in-kernel orinoco driver for example) won't work, so I had to change the middleware drivers and a lot of configuration.
alsa, which i was using in the past, now boffs me a bundle of FATAL already loaded when starting up. Not too fun. Have to look at that "sometime" . Possibly its the alsa startup script that simply sucks ;)