Opensuse 10.2 On Prep (ibm) - Sata_sil

I ended up installing 10.2 on my IBM 7043-140 (with help from Olaf Hering's boot image: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/10.2-ppc-PReP/). After installing the kernel-default rpm from that image everything was fine and dandy, except that I installed a PCI Silicon Image SATALink 3112 with a 250GB SATA hard drive (before installing). While it says that the module is loaded, the disk isn't showing up in any info listings, hence not being available to partition. The disk and controller tested fine in an x86 machine. I'm pretty sure that the device works on PPC (on PPC Macintoshes?), but a modprobe sata_sil returns a "FATAL: Module sata_sil not found."

I would like to know if this means a kernel rebuild, or something less drastic? If it is the kernel, I ask the following:

I understand that PReP support has been unintentionally dropped from the kernel since 10.1 (not sure of kernel version), has it been put back in kernel 2.6.20? 10.2 is also PReP-less but I'm not sure what's happened since then. If not, I'm considering two things:


a) building a kernel that last supported PReP, though this would mean building one earlier than for 10.2

b) getting PReP patched back into the latest kernel and building that. I would need help finding those patches.


Any help in this is appreciated!

Thanks,

Simon