3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B Multifunction Card Not Working

[linguae at lycos.com]

Hello. I have problems trying to get my multifunction 3Com Megahertz 
3CXEM556 B Ethernet/56K Modem PCMCIA card working on FreeBSD 5.1 on 
my Compaq Armada 7400.  The card works perfectly (as far as the modem 
part, can't test the ethernet portion) on Windows 98 SE. Whenever I 
try to configure PPP for my card on FreeBSD, when I type the dialing 
commands (such as at, atdt, etc.), the output on the screen would 
either be jarbled or won't appear at all.

Here is my dmesg output:

Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0689000.
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 266677223 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (266.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x652  Stepping = 2
   
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory  = 67067904 (63 MB)
avail memory = 58134528 (55 MB)
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f0970
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.1 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
cbb0: <TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x7fffe000-0x7fffefff irq 11 at 
device 12.0 on pci0
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb1: <TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x7ffff000-0x7fffffff irq 11 at 
device 12.1 on pci0
cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 
0x1000-0x100f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 14.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0x44080000-0x44080fff irq 
11 at device 14.2 on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0
usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: (0x0e11) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
eisa0: <EISA bus> on motherboard
mainboard0: <DH at 0000 (System Board)> on eisa0 slot 0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port 
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x200
sio1: port may not be enabled
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <SMCf010> can't assign resources (port)
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ep0: <3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B> at port 0x100-0x10f irq 11 function 
0 config 7 on pccard0
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6
sio4: <3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B> at port 0x110-0x117 irq 11 function 
1 config 39 on pccard0
sio4: type 16550A with a bogus IIR_TXRDY register
sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
ad0: 4108MB <IBM-DKLA-24320> [8905/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a


I did read the ep man page; it did say that my card was "wedged" 
(which, according to the Jargon File, means that the card doesn't 
really work). I also used Google to see if other people had problems 
with the same card, but I didn't find any solutions at all.  What do 
I need to do in order to get my PCMCIA card working properly?  I am 
relatively new to FreeBSD, so I don't really know where to go from 
here.  Thanks in advance.

-linguae

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