Subject: Re: Network Interface Cards
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/29/2000 14:25:49
In message <200009291837.LAA03774@Greyhawk.DSG.Stanford.EDU>, Jonathan Stone wr
ites:
>In message <20000929181241.C18A735DC2@smb.research.att.com>,
>"Steven M. Bellovin"  writes:
>
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>>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.
>
My problem was with the 3c905, which (I thought) used the ex driver, 
not ep.

		--Steve Bellovin