Based on comments from tenco and bitrain, marking this as "fix released", since code changes between Dapper's last "flight" and final release appear to have fixed this.
** Changed in: pcmcia-cs (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Released -- pcmcia detection locks up my laptop [also dapper flight 5] https://launchpad.net/bugs/20781 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs