Subject: Re: Network Interface Cards
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/29/2000 11:23:00
In message <20000929181241.C18A735DC2@smb.research.att.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin"  writes:



>One word of warning...  There is (or at least was; I haven't checked 
>lately) a problem with the 3c905B (maybe all models) and some BIOSes if 
>you boot without power-cycling after you've been running Mr. Bill's 
>operating system.  It leaves the card in a funky state so that NetBSD 
>can't deal with it.

This was fixed at one point, but other people who hacked
on the ep code may've busted it again in the interim.