pcmcia-cdrom woes

[vester <a9900876@unet.univie.ac.at>]

hello,

this is annoying, i had thought my kernel finally supported all the
hardware in my notebook only to find out that the cd drive didn't
work...so i re-compiled the kernel, basically messing up everything that
had been working before. well, now i think i am back to where i've been
before...i am using kernel 2.4.4 and i think i have built in all the
necessary things for pcmcia cdrom. my pcmcia works (so pcmcia should be
ok)...i'm wondering, maybe i am just not aware of some kind of procedure
to activate a pcmcia cd drive...so what i would need is simply a short
explanation as to what has to be done in order to get a cd-drive to
work...can anybody help me out?

thanks,

vester