I also have an inspiron 8100 that I use linux on, slackware to, I always disable pcmcia because I have no devices for it (only type of device I don't have experiance with) however after compiling a custom kernel if I forget to disable pcmcia eather in boot scripts or in kernel it will lock because of some version incompatibility, I recommend if you have no pcmcia disable it (chmod 000 /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia on slackware) if you do use it try downloading latest pcmcia utils from kernel.org and compile a newer kernel (2.4.21) or if you are really daring you can use 2.6.0-testX like I do, it kicks a lot off @$$ but it is not the most stable (I have had no trouble in actuality, but it is a beta) oh and use test3 not test4 alsa is broken to bits in test4 and the alsa.sourceforge sources don't compiel right in 2.6.x
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