Subject: Re: sometimes network
To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/16/2000 17:05:45
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, George Sollish wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Steven Grunza wrote:
> 
> > My 3C905 gets confused during warm-boots from Windows98 to NetBSD; it has 
> > something to do with the power state Windows puts the card into.  If you 
> > turn off system power and then boot into NetBSD, does that make a difference?
> > 
> 
> One test isn't conclusive, but booting the box directly into 1.4.1 after
> powering off first does give me a live network.  Following up on your
> idea, is linux leaving the 3c509 in a questionable state?  If so, when I
> remove linux entirely (or at least rarely access it) my problem should
> disappear, right?

	If that is the case then providing you cold boot after using
	linux you should never see the problem again. Could you submit
	a PR on this either way - whatever linux may be doing to the card
	it would be best if NetBSD could undo :)

		David/absolute