[wplug] Slackware startup hang

[Ryan W. Frenz]

I just installed Slackware 9.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8100.  The install 
went fine, but on the first boot I'm hanging when testing the cardbus 
pcmcia ports.  The system is hanging on the following:

cardmgr[66]: watching 2 sockets
cs:   IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs:    IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff


Then nothing.  The system obviously doesn't like the last port range, 
but how can I prevent this hang?  I found a supposed fix at 
http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pooh/linux/inspiron8000.html that involves 
editing /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to exclude those ports, but it didn't 
work for me.  Does anyone have any idea how I can work around/fix this?  
Thanks in advance.