Laptops :: pcmcia problems

Hi, can anyone tell me the stages of loading or initialising my pcmcia devices, i have 5 (2xnetgear, 3com, fibrelink and d-link) cards that worked on win95 before i installed dsl :S, with dsl installed should i just inserted the card into the device and goto netcardconfig?

it says "no supported cards found"

i have run "cardctl status" and the reply is something to the affect no cards found on /proc/devices!?

what should be my course of action?

thanks in advance, i am in a desparate state right now :'(

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sorry i had to do this post twice

going to install cs-pcmcia from sourceforge

original here.