upgrade to 2.4.16 causes PMCIA failure

Hello, I am running SuSE 7.2 on an IBM thinkpad. I was running kernal 2.4.7 and everything was running fine. I have a lucent wavelan wireless adapter. I upgraded to 2.4.16 and now I get errors regarding PCMCIA and my wavelan adapter. I have upgraded the PCMCIA pacakge and the modutils package when I upgraded the kernel. I have gone back to 2.4.7 :( Anyone had any success with this kind of config? IBM THinkpad 600X, Lucent Orinoco adapter, DVD drive. Thanks lach