The problem you had with a 3Com 3C905B may be related to the low-power mode
where the card goes into low power state D3 (I think it was D3).  The
1.4.2_ALPHA branch of NetBSD-i386 solved this problem for me.

At 02:28 PM 9/29/00 -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>	That's news to me. I personally have never ran into that, but
>wierder things do happen... Did that problem happen to you? Did you try
>booting to only DOS and using the 3Com 3c5x9.exe config program?
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Steven M. Bellovin [SMTP:smb@research.att.com]
>> Sent:	Friday, September 29, 2000 2:13 PM
>> To:	David Woyciesjes
>> Cc:	'dribbling@thekeyboard.com'; port-i386@netbsd.org
>> Subject:	Re: Network Interface Cards 
>> 
>> In message
>> <9011A52E011ED311B4280004AC1BA6156D519E@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu
>> >, David Woyciesjes writes:
>> >Here's my $0.02 ---
>> >ISA - If you can find it, get your hands on a 3Com 3C509B, download the
>> >config disks, and set all the parameters by hand. Do not use Plug And
>> Pray
>> >on those cards...
>> >PCI - Any other 3Com card, and again, get the config disks.
>> >PCMCIA - 3Com 3C589
>> >
>> >Never had a problem with any 3Com card. Unless, of course, I left it in
>> >PnPray mode...
>> 
>> One word of warning...  There is (or at least was; I haven't checked 
>> lately) a problem with the 3c905B (maybe all models) and some BIOSes if 
>> you boot without power-cycling after you've been running Mr. Bill's 
>> operating system.  It leaves the card in a funky state so that NetBSD 
>> can't deal with it.
>> 
>> 		--Steve Bellovin
>> 
>
>


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