Upgrading Kernel on Laptop

I'd like to upgrade my Kernel from the 2.4.4 to probably 2.4.16. However, I'm using a laptop. When I did this before, I remember having to get the newest PCMCIA drivers too. Is this still true? Does anyone know if I'd have to do this with a SuSE Compiled Kernel? On another note, I should still be able to run make cloneconfig and then copy the .config file to the new kernel root and then run make menuconfig and have all of SuSE's layout turned on by default right? Thanks Lee