[driverloader] No Ethernet, usb mouse, soundcard after using Linuxant's kernel patch

[Jeramy Ashlock]

I applied the patch using

[root at localhost linux]# patch -p1 <linux-2.6.9-16kstacks.patch
patching file arch/i386/defconfig
patching file arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
patching file arch/i386/kernel/irq.c
patching file include/asm-i386/irq.h
patching file include/asm-i386/module.h
patching file include/asm-i386/thread_info.h

and when I rebooted, the ethernet, usb mouse and soundcard are reported 
as not found.

I completely removed the kernel directory, downloaded the kernel again 
and rebuilt it, but these devices are still broken.

Does this patch alter anything in my /lib directory?