PCMCIA Problems

> I have a Hitachi M120D Notebook I've installed Slackware9.0 on (I
> started this before 9.1 came out), on which I cannot get the PCMCIA
> support to work. I first started out with one of the pre compiled
> Slackware kernels and I also tried with a custom kernel with
> statically compiled PCMCIA support. In all cases, I get the message
> telling me that no /proc/pcmcia device is found. If I remember right,
> I think this message popped up when I would run the rc.pcmcia
> slackware supplied script. I'm pretty sure that script attempts to
> load any respective PCMCIA related modules. I'm new to this PCMCIA
> thing so don't know all my options yet. I've read the PCMCIA HOWTO
> some but I feel like I'm still missing something. When this notebook
> computer had windows on it, it found the PCMCIA modem in there so I'm
> reasonably sure that PCMCIA does work some how on this box. I would
> sure like to get linux to work with PCMCIA on this box so I can do
> network connectivity and all that good stuff.
>
> I know, this may be vague so far, but where can I go from here? I do
> have some log files available if anyone is interested or if they can
> help any.

If that laptop is as old as I think it is (P120 or so), then it might be that
the kernel pcmcia support doesn't work for it. I have a Toughbook P150 and I
have to use the pcmcia sources from pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net (means disabling
the kernel pcmcia stuff) to get it to work.