Firewire + USB card causes trouble when inserted

venkat.lakshminarayanan_at_gmail.com
Date: 08/23/05 

Date: 23 Aug 2005 07:51:16 -0700

Hello,

I am having trouble getting Linux to recognize the following PCMCIA
card:
Syba SD-PCB-COM
Chipset: M5271
Product Info: http://www.syba.com/product/43/05/01/
It offers 2 USB2 ports and 2 firewire ports.

When I insert it and run 'cardctl ident 0' [when this card is plugged
into slot 0] I am given the message "no product info available." The
system has no trouble, however, recognizing my wireless PCMCIA card
[linksys wpc11].

What could be the trouble? The card not only refuses to be
recognized, but when I insert it it actually prevents the
otherwise-functional wireless internet card from being recognized as
well. There are windows and mac drivers available for this
troublesome SD-PCB-COM, but unfortunately I'm unsure about how to make
it work under Linux. Is it possible to use the windows drivers to
construct a driver for linux?

I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu. My computer is a IBM
Thinkpad A21m. If anyone can think of any possible solutions, I'd love
to hear them Please contact me at venkat@aya.yale.edu with any
suggestions. I apprecaite it!

Venkat

PS - This is my first post, and I am also completely new to Linux.
Please let me know if I've posted anything incorrectly or if I am
overlooking something obvious.

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