This is fixed in the 3.1.10 release 

Forum: 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter Issues
Re: Problems with pcmcia-3.1.9 on SuSE Linux 6.0 (Denny Herlihy)
Date: 2000, Feb 04
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

This bug only affects 2.0.* kernels, which is why it slipped by. -- Dave

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1. One more tiny problem by Denny Herlihy, 2000, Feb 08

to: "This is fixed in the 3.1.10 release"