debian wheezy upgrade with doubletalk

[Tom Fowle]

running Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686
on an Asus 32 bit board with a doubletalk PC.

Having more and more troubles with ssl "unable to get secure connection"
errors

Have done 
apt-get update

Presume I should do 
apt-get upgrade

but not sure if I must limit to a particular kernel to be sure the synth
will still work.  If so, how do I do that and what version is safe?

Or could I do something like 
upgrade open-ssl

Many secure sites still work, but the problems increase.
Thanks
tom Fowle