FC2 on dell latitude CPi -- "cardmgr: no sockets found"

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a colleague who just installed FC2 on a latitude CPi -- custom install, 
being selective about the packages although, sadly, not sure which ones he 
picked at this point -- can't get pcmcia to work so he can get on the 
network.

  i just tried to run cardmgr, and got "no sockets found!".  does this 
mean he failed to install some critical PCMCIA-related package?

  running "cardctl ident" generates 

  open_sock(): No such device

which i've never run into before.  i have to assume there's some really
important rpm that didn't make it onto the system.  thoughts?

rday