Re: Multifunction cards functioning... er, multiply?
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:03:17PM -0500, Scott Bigham wrote:
> I have a 3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 Ethernet/modem combo card, which
> apparently keys off the 3c589_cs kernel driver. It works fine, but it
> suffers from the problem described in the PCMCIA HOWTO[*] that the
> Ethernet and serial drivers cannot function simultaneously, so that, for
> instance, I have to manually rmmod the Ethernet driver to use the modem.
>
> My question is, have more recent versions of the kernel or PCMCIA
> modules alleviated this problem (I'm currently running kernel 2.2.5 and
> pcmcia-cs 3.1.1-1 on top of Debian 2.1); or alternatively, can anyone
> recommend an Ethernet/modem combo card (preferably with XJACK) that does
> not have this problem?
I use Xircom CreditCard CEM56 10/100 Ethernet+56K Modem combo with no problems
whatsoever. It is not with XJACK though. Xircom RealPort is also supposed to
be very good, but it takes two PCMCIA slots...
Alex Y.
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