Cardbus firewire + USB card causes trouble when inserted

[Venkat Lakshminarayanan]

Hello,

I am having trouble getting Linux to recognize the following 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 at 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.