I'm new to Sabayon, having just begun migrating my laptop from Gentoo.

Firstly, I had trouble installing the synaptics driver. The installation borked, telling me that no usable .config file was found in the kernel sources directory. Which, my Gentoo experience told me, was because the kernel sources weren't configured correctly. Under Gentoo I would fix this simply by doing
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make oldconfig && make prepare
So, I set about trying to compile a "Standard" Sabayon kernel, as per the instructions here: http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Upgrade_kernel_using_genkernel
I have since fixed the synaptics install problem by manually copying the kernel config file to the sources directory with:
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zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config
But I still can't get genkernel to compile a kernel. It complains that the Makefile is missing from the kernel sources directory!
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grep: /usr/src/linux/Makefile: No such file or diretory
grep: /Makefile: No such directory
ERROR: Failed to compile the "mrproper" target...
I am quite familiar with compiling kernels on Gentoo and other distros, so this is leaving me quite confused. I have made sure that the appropriate sources are set with eselect and that the symlink /usr/src/linux points to the correct directory. I have tried with sabayon-sources and linux-sabayon-sources installed (both individually and together) but to no avail!
Could somebody please tell me what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something quite simple that I have overlooked. I've tried searching the forums but the only references I could find are in Italian (which stupid ignorant white boys like me can't read

BTW - all software so far has been installed with equo. I haven't tried using emerge in this box yet!
Thanks,