On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:25:59PM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> Still puzzling over why my fast Etherlink XL ethernet (3c905B-tx) card
> is not working reliably.
> 
> It works fine as long as I don't try to move data any faster than about
> 1 MByte/sec.  If I connect to the NetBSD server with the 10/100
> card from another machine with a 10/100 capability, I get errors
> on the console: "/netbsd: ex0: device timeout".  These messages are
> coming out of the src/sys/dev/ic/elinkxl.c. at about line 1446.
I've heard a lot of people complaining about 3Com's autonegotiation though
it always worked for me (with four different cards.)

Try switching it of, i.e. set the media manually (on both sides).
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