Seeking reliable USB Firewire combo cardbus card

(Reposted from Bluetooth, USB, Firewire... forum in case I had misplaced it originally.)
Subject line says it all, or mostly so. I have an IoGear GUF202 pcmcia card with two USB 2.0 ports, one six-pin FireWire port, and one four-pin FireWire port. Its USB 2.0 services are not reliable; sustained transfers freeze my 1Ghz Titanium PowerBook G4. I've seen online several other cards from different manufacturers with the same form factor, but haven't yet found one with the preferred NEC chipset for USB services.
Can anyone offer a recommendation -- and a source? Swapping separate FireWire and USB 2.0 PC cards is becoming a pain.

Hi, wsudderth. If you have a USB2-only adapter card that works to give you sustained transfers without any problems, I recommend that you continue to use it and forget about buying a combination USB2/FireWire card. Plenty of people have trouble getting sustained transfers even through USB2-only cards, never mind combo cards.
USB2 seems more trouble-prone generally than FireWire, and in real life, it's considerably slower despite its higher theoretical maximum transfer speed. For most purposes, FireWire is a much better choice for a Mac user.

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