Kernel oops on pcmcia compact flash insert

I get this this oops in my logs when I insert a flash card in my pcmcia slot on a dell M70, uname -r is: 2.6.15-26-386
I have vmware-player installed but not running

All is fine if I boot up with the card already installed.

[17327099.572000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[17327100.096000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[17327100.096000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17327100.096000] usb-storage: device found at 5
[17327100.096000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17327100.096000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[17327100.096000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[17327105.096000] Vendor: memory Model: USB2.0 Rev: 1.00
[17327105.096000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[17327105.096000] SCSI device sdb: 1017088 512-byte hdwr sectors (521 MB)
[17327105.100000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17327105.100000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17327105.100000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17327105.104000] SCSI device sdb: 1017088 512-byte hdwr sectors (521 MB)
[17327105.104000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17327105.104000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17327105.104000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17327105.104000] sdb: sdb4
[17327105.104000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17327105.104000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[17327105.108000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17327106.364000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[17327191.816000] usb 5-5: USB disconnect, address 5
[17334829.308000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
[17334829.308000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
[17334829.448000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17334829.740000] hda: SAMSUNG CF/ATA, CFA DISK drive
[17334830.076000] ide0 at 0x2100-0x2107,0x210e on irq 3
[17334830.076000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[17334830.076000] hda: 8211168 sectors (4204 MB) w/0KiB Cache, CHS=8146/16/63
[17334830.076000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[17334830.076000] hda: hda1 hda2
[17334830.080000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
[17334830.080000] printing eip:
[17334830.080000] c01a2bc0
[17334830.080000] *pde = 00000000
[17334830.080000] Oops: 0002 [#1]
[17334830.080000] PREEMPT
[17334830.080000] Modules linked in: usb_storage arc4 ieee80211_crypt_wep isofs udf vmnet vmmon binfmt_misc rfcomm l2cap bluetooth nbd ipv6 ppdev lp autofs4 speedstep_centrino cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative freq_table tc1100_wmi video acpi_sbs battery i2c_acpi_ec container button pcc_acpi sony_acpi ac dev_acpi hotkey nls_utf8 ntfs nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat ext3 jbd dm_mod md_mod ide_disk ide_cs pcmcia af_packet ipw2200 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_1_1_13 ieee80211_1_1_13_crypt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc tsdev joydev parport_pc parport usbhid pcspkr rtc nvidia i2c_core psmouse serio_raw tg3 intel_agp agpgart shpchp pci_hotplug sg evdev reiserfs ide_generic ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_piix ahci libata scsi_mod generic thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor capability commoncap
[17334830.080000] CPU: 0
[17334830.080000] EIP: 0060:[<c01a2bc0>] Tainted: P VLI
[17334830.080000] EFLAGS: 00210286 (2.6.15-26-386)
[17334830.080000] EIP is at create_dir+0x10/0x1c0
[17334830.080000] eax: f7d9b888 ebx: f456f3d0 ecx: f456f3d0 edx: 00000000
[17334830.080000] esi: f456f3d0 edi: f7f79b50 ebp: dd347a18 esp: dd3479f0
[17334830.080000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
[17334830.080000] Process sh (pid: 12810, threadinfo=dd346000 task=eccd7550)
[17334830.080000] Stack: f7f79ac0 f456f3d0 f456f3d0 f7f79b50 f7f79ac0 c01a2db8 f456f3d0 f7d9b888
[17334830.080000] f456f3d4 dd347a18 00000000 f456f3d0 c01d9aa2 f456f3d0 f456f3d0 f456f3c0
[17334830.080000] c01d9d01 f456f3d0 f456f3d0 f456f3c0 f7f79b58 c01d9d86 f456f3d0 f456f3d0
[17334830.080000] Call Trace:
[17334830.080000] [<c01a2db8>] sysfs_create_dir+0x28/0x70
[17334830.080000] [<c01d9aa2>] create_dir+0x12/0x50
[17334830.080000] [<c01d9d01>] kobject_add+0x71/0xe0
[17334830.080000] [<c01d9d86>] kobject_register+0x16/0x60
[17334830.080000] [<c019c09c>] add_partition+0xac/0xd0
[17334830.080000] [<c019c298>] rescan_partitions+0xe8/0x140
[17334830.080000] [<c0168769>] do_open+0x309/0x370
[17334830.080000] [<c0168838>] blkdev_get+0x68/0x80
[17334830.080000] [<c019c199>] register_disk+0x99/0xb0
[17334830.080000] [<c01cf98e>] add_disk+0x2e/0x40
[17334830.080000] [<c01cf930>] exact_match+0x0/0x10
[17334830.080000] [<c01cf940>] exact_lock+0x0/0x20
[17334830.080000] [<f8bdb18a>] ide_disk_probe+0x10a/0x13f [ide_disk]
[17334830.080000] [<c024457b>] driver_probe_device+0x3b/0xc0
[17334830.080000] [<c0244600>] __device_attach+0x0/0x10
[17334830.080000] [<c0243d78>] bus_for_each_drv+0x48/0x80
[17334830.080000] [<c0244664>] device_attach+0x54/0x60
[17334830.080000] [<c0244600>] __device_attach+0x0/0x10
[17334830.080000] [<c0243eb1>] bus_add_device+0x21/0xa0
[17334830.080000] [<c0242ead>] device_add+0xdd/0x140
[17334830.080000] [<c0255d1b>] probe_hwif_init_with_fixup+0x6b/0x90
[17334830.080000] [<c024f1e9>] ide_register_hw_with_fixup+0x189/0x1a0
[17334830.080000] [<c0255750>] ide_undecoded_slave+0x0/0xa0
[17334830.080000] [<f8ba31cf>] idecs_register+0x6f/0xb0 [ide_cs]
[17334830.080000] [<c0255750>] ide_undecoded_slave+0x0/0xa0
[17334830.080000] [<f8ba3707>] ide_config+0x4f7/0x620 [ide_cs]
[17334830.080000] [<f8b868ef>] pccard_read_tuple+0x4f/0xa0 [pcmcia_core]
[17334830.080000] [<f8ba396a>] ide_event+0xda/0xe0 [ide_cs]
[17334830.080000] [<f8be060c>] pcmcia_register_client+0x1dc/0x2c0 [pcmcia]
[17334830.080000] [<c01a1af4>] sysfs_setattr+0x174/0x2a0
[17334830.080000] [<c01491d1>] kzalloc+0x11/0x40
[17334830.080000] [<f8ba3083>] ide_attach+0x83/0xc0 [ide_cs]
[17334830.080000] [<c01d9f02>] kobject_get+0x12/0x20
[17334830.080000] [<f8bdf46b>] pcmcia_device_probe+0x6b/0x120 [pcmcia]
[17334830.080000] [<c024457b>] driver_probe_device+0x3b/0xc0
[17334830.080000] [<c0244600>] __device_attach+0x0/0x10
[17334830.080000] [<c0243d78>] bus_for_each_drv+0x48/0x80
[17334830.080000] [<c02441c0>] bus_rescan_devices_helper+0x0/0x30
[17334830.080000] [<c0244664>] device_attach+0x54/0x60
[17334830.080000] [<c0244600>] __device_attach+0x0/0x10
[17334830.080000] [<c02441e6>] bus_rescan_devices_helper+0x26/0x30
[17334830.080000] [<c0243c58>] bus_for_each_dev+0x48/0x80
[17334830.080000] [<c0244203>] bus_rescan_devices+0x13/0x20
[17334830.080000] [<c02441c0>] bus_rescan_devices_helper+0x0/0x30
[17334830.080000] [<f8be02bc>] pcmcia_store_allow_func_id_match+0x4c/0x60 [pcmcia]
[17334830.080000] [<c01a22f7>] flush_write_buffer+0x27/0x30
[17334830.080000] [<c01a233f>] sysfs_write_file+0x3f/0x60
[17334830.080000] [<c015fed6>] vfs_write+0x96/0x150
[17334830.080000] [<c0160048>] sys_write+0x38/0x80
[17334830.080000] [<c0102feb>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79
[17334830.080000] Code: 80 8c 00 00 00 c0 bc 33 c0 31 c0 c3 eb 0d 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 57 56 53 55 8b 6c 24 24 8b 44 24 1c 8b 50 08 <ff> 4a 70 0f 88 ae 0c 00 00 31 c0 b9 ff ff ff ff 8b 7c 24 20 f2
[17334830.080000]