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 seems to require a 
self compiled 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?