On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 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

I haven't had a dead network since I started cold booting directly into
1.4.1 (perhaps a half-dozen or so tries) so that may be the source of the
card's confusion.  I'll run some additional tests before filing the PR.

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