I use two webgear aviator 2.4 pro wireless ethernet cards to let me roam around the house. My desktop machine (dual CPUs) provides the Internet connectivity to my laptop. Really wish SMP kernels would include pcmcia modules so this setup would be easier to achieve.
I'm told that we turned it off because it required APM which caused it to conflict with the SMP kernel.
Well, in pinstripe kernels, you are already enabling APM on SMP kernels (probably for ATX power off on shutdown): [root@k9spud SOURCES]# grep APM kernel-2.2.16-i686-smp.config CONFIG_APM=y ...
Later kernels do the APM management at runtime for SMP