Thanks for the reply Bentley. My problem isn't with the ppp stuff, but with the core PCMCIA stuff in general. I was using the 2.2.15 kernel though and that may be an issue, although not one I can get around since I told the installation not to maintain backward compatibility with 2.0.x kernels when I initialized the ext2 partitions.
I don't get any beeps because pcmcia_core.o won't load due to unresolved symbols. For now I've gotten around the problem by installing pcmcia-source-3.1.14-1 from woody and kernel-source-2.2.15 from potato and compiling by hand (well, with make-kpkg anyway). There's still one unresolved symbol, but it's in epic_cb.o which isn't something I use or need, and dselect wants to go nuts and install a newer pcmcia-cs for that source. Anyway, this seems to point out to me that it's a problem with pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_2.2.15-2 in potato. Is anyone successfully using pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1 and kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-2? How about pcmcia-source_3.1.8-13 and kernel-source-2.2.15_2.2.15-2? I also tried it with kernel-source-2.2.14 with the same result. Gary