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Just to answer my own question for those who might be interested. I was trying to get the above stuff running on "vanilla" Linux without inherent PCMCIA support. It simply isn't worth it. I wasted a couple of hours doing that. Then I downloaded David Hinds' pcmcia package, compiled and installed it. Installed the modules package, and rebooted. After literally 30 minutes including download time I had a functioning plug-and-play system that understands the above configuration and then some. I've never seen such a good excuse for loadable modules as pcmcia plug and play, and Hinds' package appears to be excellent. Eugene Fiume.