OK, today I decided to play again with my GSM/GPRS CF Card. Last time I tried that, with alpha, I suffered all sort of weird problems (bus errors, most of the executables couldn't be found anymore by the shell). Subsequently, I encountered a lot of strange things (file & process ownership were wrong, so Tab Setting application and swap stuff were broken) until I reinstalled alpha from scratch.
Today when I inserted the GSM/GPRS CF card (EagleTec GSM/GPRS CF+), I simply got a wild and instantaneous reboot, with a 5 second countdown that looped again and again. I had to press the reset switch to get out of it (didn't read the doc before, so I couldn't find a way out of that countdown). Later attempts showed a bit more succes as I was able to see a brief "New card: serial or modem" message box from the card monitor applet.
Trying to launch the Network application doesn't work (the application never displays anything, either it is stuck waiting for something that doesn't happen or it dies before displaying anything), and tapping the applet list applet icon caused another partial reboot (SLC3Kb1 logo then the countdown loop again).
I was able to start the text console from the countdown, and check dmesg, so I'll upload the log in a few minutes.
iamasmith, let me know what you want me to try if you need more data about this problem...