I can confirm that the virtual kernel image in hardy-updates, 2.6.24-19.41 does not have CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS or CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK enabled and that conntrack fails to work (tested with conntrack -L). I have also verified that the version in hardy-proposed, linux-image-2.6.24-21-virtual-2.6.24-21.42 does have these config options enabled and that conntrack minimally appears to work (no error when conntrack -L is invoked).
I can confirm that the virtual kernel image in hardy-updates, 2.6.24-19.41 does not have CONFIG_ NF_CONNTRACK_ EVENTS or CONFIG_ NF_CT_NETLINK enabled and that conntrack fails to work (tested with conntrack -L). I have also verified that the version in hardy-proposed, linux-image- 2.6.24- 21-virtual- 2.6.24- 21.42 does have these config options enabled and that conntrack minimally appears to work (no error when conntrack -L is invoked).