Powerbook USB adapters

	Greetings, my friends.  As you may have memorized by now, I have a
Powerbook G3 Wallstreet series, which comes with no USB.  My local SF
Bay Area Macintosh dealer, www.computerware.com, has two USB adapters
for me.
	One is at http://www.macally.com/new/usb/newuh276.html.  The second
one is from Orange Micro, to which I can't find a URL so far.
	Do you guys have any idea how feasible it would be to support either
one under LinuxPPC?
	I realize that there is a lot of unstable work right now integrating
pcmcia support into the standard kernel tree.  Hopefully Linus's laptop
usage will propel that as it did with USB  ;)  But I don't know how
well the two peripheral protocols have converged, considering that I'm
hearing from people on this list whose machines halt when they simply
insert a card of an arbitrary type.
	Shall I buy one now, and cheer you guys on until it works?
	I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  I want my Powerbook to
rock, and that requires Linux support.  So, if any of you want to take
on support for any given item, just let me know what would motivate
you, and I'll see what I can do.  I'm not an employer; just a highly
motivated and motivatable non-programming citizen.  I could send
someone one of these USB cards, if they like.  For free!
	But I'm working on that non-programming part.  I just spent $200 on
Apple literature, from corporate tales to Apple // hacking.  I read
"Inside the Apple //gs" cover to cover in one evening, and understood
most of it except some specific device driver (usually assembly)
techniques.  But, back then, almost everything was a device driver.
	Anyhow, lemme know.

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