No I didn't , and yes doing it solved the problem (Dashamir Hoxa already
suggested it)

  Hasn't solved my USB problem yet though!

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> Did you do an 'make mrproper'?  You usually just have to do it the first
> time you make a particular kernel, but you get strange results if you
> don't.  So the steps would be
>
>   cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
>   make mrproper
>   copy your config file in from wherever
>   edit your config file
>   make oldconfig
>   make dep
>   make bzImage
>   make modules
>   make modules_install
>