gentoo problems

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hey guys,
This isn't exactly a speakup problem, but maybe someone here can help me 
out. After a recent round of upgrades, my Gentoo system began behaving 
very strangely. Basically what happens is that every attempt to load a 
module results in a bomb out, and the kernel reports vmalloc couldn't 
allocate requested pages. I tried reinstalling from a stage3 with the 
same results. I'm pretty sure it's something in my kernel config; that's 
the only thing that I carried into the new install that could account 
for this. Does anyone have any idea which kernel config option is set 
incorrectly given this behavior? I can always start over with a fresh 
config, but since I build them from scratch it would take a long time so 
I would like to avoid that if it's something someone just happens to 
know how to fix. Personally, I'm at a loss on this one. Thanks in advance.
Joe