2004.2 Stage3 SMP kernel modules woes

[headgap]

before you tell me to 'get the latest code' . . . i'm on a 56k link. downloading the livecd took me 4.5 d*a*y*s...

ideally, there's some way to fix this locally.

2004.2 Universal LiveCD

SMP kernel

emerge gentoo-dev-sources
make menuconfig
select eg ip_conntrack as [M]
make clean
make && make modules_install
reboot

modprobe ip_conntrack (or any other loadable module)
"Invalid module format"

what gives?
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