compiling pcmcia-source

[Robert Voigt <f1k@gmx.de>]

I want to compile the pcmcia-source package. The documentation says the 
kernel source must be configured (make config dep). It does not discribe a 
way to build the modules without compiling a new kernel, but I don't want to 
compile a kernel. I just want to compile the pcmcia modules for my 
2.2.18pre21 kernel, because I need the latest pcmcia version (2.1.25-3), and 
there's no modules package of this version for my kernel. I don't want to 
compile a new kernel because it would break a lot of things. 
What should I do? Can I just copy a .config file to the kernel source tree, 
and where can I get the .config file that was used to build the 
kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 for potato? And how about the .depend file?