Great - could you add an update to George's PR when its submitted?

	Thanks

		David/absolute

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Steven Grunza wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> 
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