Running lspcmcia just after booting shows the device just as I quoted above.
I emailed the person who posted
this, and he responded to me. According to him, nothing needs to be done. For him (and he has the exact same card), he just needs to insert the card, the OS detects it automatically, and he's good to go.
Maybe it's my laptop...
*edit*
...Does it tell you anything if the boot process for Ubuntu takes about 5-7 minutes? I get a black screen for all that time, then the login screens. If this means anything (like hardware support failure?), is there a way to get a boot log that someone here could read for me?