I set up slackware 11.0 by first installing it with the 2.4 kernel then I installed the 2.6-smp packages.

I have just noticed:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-10-09 20:00 rc.modules -> rc.modules-2.4.33.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25553 2006-09-01 09:31 rc.modules-2.4.33.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28472 2006-09-30 23:38 rc.modules-2.6.17.13-smp*

rc.modules is pointing to the wrong file.

Does this matter? Is this a bug in the installation?

No, it is not a bug, although you can fix the link to point to the rc.modules-2.6.17.13-smp file if you like.

Slackware will look for a suitable "rc.modules" file it can use, and there is a certain order in the way it looks for a good one: first it will look for a "rc.modules-<kernelversion>", then for a symlink called "rc.modules" and ultimately it will look for a real actual file called rc.modules.
The first file that isfound will be used.

In your case, the rc.modules-2.6.17.13-smp file is found first and used if you run the 2.6.17.13-smp kernel. If you should reboot into 2.4.33.3, then the rc.modules-2.4.33.3 file would be used instead.

Eric

Thanks very much