I've got a request into 3Com to get the documentation on the 3C905B 
card.  The problem appears to be with Linux (Win98 in my case) putting the 
card into the power-state D3.  From notes on the Linux web page, this 
requires special recovery steps on the part of the driver to bring the card 
back up again.

When I have more info, I'll send in my fix (if someone doesn't beat me to 
it....)

Steven G.
steven_grunza@ieee.org

At 05:05 PM 1/16/00 +0000, 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
>
>