Comment 29 for bug 8019

This has long-since been fixed in dapper, the bug was just buried.

pcmcia is loaded by S20 now, well before anything filesystem related is tried.

ppp can be loaded for networking by creation of a ppp0 in /etc/network/interfaces, which will bring it up before smb mounts, etc. are loaded

you won't see ntpdate in your boot logs because it's not run in the boot sequence, but as a result of interfaces coming up