Thinkpad power management

I have a A21m thinkpad with SuSE 8.2. I guess the kernel doesn't come with apm support, so I'm stuck with ACPI only. The only problem is that the "sleep" keys on the keyboard don't work with ACPI. I could start the apmd despite the support (or lack thereof) and shutdown the keys providing there was nothing in the PCMCIA buss. I have had, at various times in the past, this notebook working with PCMCIA and some kind of power management (Dont' Recall) where it would actually put the PCMCIA card to suspend/eject when it went to sleep. Any suggestions?