Mailing the story:
Cisco VPN Client and 2.6 Kernel
Today is a good day. I've been dragging home a Windows laptop every weekend for the past 19 months, for one simple reason - VPN access. When Mandriva switched to the 2.6 kernel, I switched right away, and immediately broke the Cisco VPN Client build. Getting it to work with x86-64 (I've been using Mandriva x86-64 since December of 2003) was completely out of the question.