The following reply was made to PR kern/30284; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: "Ja'far Railton" <ibn.richard@gmail.com>,
	current-users@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/30284 (was Re: Getting ready to branch for 4.0)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:28:35 -0700

 On Sep 13,  5:39pm, "Ja'far Railton" wrote:
 } On 4/11/06, Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
 } >
 } > the NetBSD project is about to create the netbsd-4 branch for the NetBSD 4.0
 } > release. However, before starting the release process, we would like to fix a
 } > few bugs that we consider show-stoppers.
 } >
 } > The following list is what the NetBSD developers came up with. If you
 } > would like to suggest adding "your favorite bug", let us know.
 } 
 } I hope kern/30284 can be looked at, especially if the 2.0 branch is on
 } the way out as that is what I have to run for my PCMCIA modem to work.
 
      Try the following patch for sys/dev/com_pcmcia.c.  It isn't a real
 fix, but may get your modem working for the time being (it works for
 me).
 
 --- com_pcmcia.c.orig	2006-01-03 19:30:45.000000000 -0800
 +++ com_pcmcia.c	2006-01-03 19:33:48.000000000 -0800
 @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ com_pcmcia_validate_config(cfe)
  		return (EINVAL);
  	/* Some cards have a memory space, but we don't use it. */
  	cfe->num_memspace = 0;
 +
 +printf("cfe->iomask = %lu\n", cfe->iomask);
 +printf("cfe->iospace[0].length = %lu\n", cfe->iospace[0].length);
 +	cfe->iomask = 0;
  	return (0);
  }
  
 }-- End of excerpt from "Ja'far Railton"