Problems with kernel-image and Modules

[Hammurabi Mendes <hammurabi@persocom.com.br>]

Hey all,

I upgraded the kernel version to 2.4.0, using the debian method
(make-kpkg and then dpkg -i 
kernel-image-2.4.0....deb) but my old kernel (2.2.17, with came by
default on my system) is 
marked as uninstalled by dpkg's status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status) but
vmlinuz-2.2.17 and
some other 2.2.17 files are in /boot. The /lib/modules/2.2.17 is also in
place. There is also
a /vmlinuz.old symlink pointing to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17.

How can I get rid of this old kernel package without corrupt the package
system (did I do that already?)

Another problem: my /lib/modules/2.4.0/modules.dep file is empty, and
modprobe always tells me that it 
can't find the module I try to load. I'm worried because i compiled
sound support as modules, and i would
like to have those modules loaded on demand, using default parameters
(irq and so on), but i don't know 
the place to put those parameters.