Per Olofsson fixed this in Debian's pcmciautils 012-4, which is now included in Edgy's 014-1ubuntu1:
* Simplify the init script and make it print less confusing messages. Closes: #351545. ** Changed in: pcmciautils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Spurious failure message on systems which don't have PCMCIA hardware https://launchpad.net/bugs/37631 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs