In message <199906170238.TAA01393@Cup.DSG.Stanford.EDU>, you write: 

-> Below are the acutal `patches from Hayakawa-san's CardBus patches.  I
-> dont know enough about COM IRQ usage to judge teh pros and cons of
-> avoiding the standard COM1 and COM2 values on PCMCIA, but the rest look OK.

For those of us who are resource-constrained (short on IRQ's, IO space or
actual physical connectors) on our laptops, I think this is a Bad Thing(tm).  

I'd like to be able to disable my COM2 (which, on my laptop is only usable 
through the IR port since I only have one COM port on the back) and use the 
modem function of my combo ether/modem as COM2 instead.  Same goes for 
separate modem PC-cards.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                  rafal@mediaone.net