On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:50:13AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

> ifconfig -m ex0
> 
> should give a list of media types supported by your card.

It hadn't any media support... :]  ("none").

> You may also want to check that a PHY attached, since the 3c905B is a fast
> ethernet card.  The fact that 'auto' doesn't work is often indicative of a
> missing/wrong phy.

I had to uncomment a "exphy*" line in the kernel config ("3COM media PHYs"),
and rebuild the kernel. It works now.
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