Unresolved Symbol: usb... but i deactivated it when making 'make menuconfig'

[Jörn Dreyer <j.dreyer@gmx.de>]

Hi everybody,

this is my first post on a mailing list ... and as you might have guessed 
im a newbie.
ok this is my problem:

i installed linux on an old ibm ps/2 (diskette version). works fine. (read 
all the mca stuff availiable and so on...)
i managed to set up a nullmodem connection by using a nullmodem modem 
driver for windows (the direct cable connection somehow didnt work :-(), 
logged in with leechFTP and saved some other packages on the linux machine 
(kernel .... and everything needed to recompile it).

i am running kernel 2.2.19pre17. after make menuconfig i do make deb, make 
clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. no errors till now...
after copying the kernel to /boot/<placemykernelnamehere> and installing it 
with 'lilo' and 'lilo -q' i reboot: the kernel boots fine till i get lots 
and lots of unresolved symbol errors:
they start with misc and usb... now the funny thing is that i deactivated 
usb in menuconfig...

i also made a mrproper before make menuconf dep clean bzImage.....

please i dont need usb in any way .... are some other kernel things 
dependent on it???

how can i get rid of that ... maybe delete all the modules i have in 
/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 ????

aaaaarrrrrgggggh

btw my kernel runs fine ... i didnt run into any crashes / hangs till now...