> Well, now this makes me suspect even more strongly that the lossage seen in
> the 386 com.c driver has nothing to do with the com driver itself (hence the
> calls for making it machine dependent seem more and more misguided).

Well, the com.c isn't as good as it could be, if there's an alternative one
that works better ;)  But it sure sounds like there was a general interrupt
problem in NetBSD, causing problems with everything that needs fast
interrupt response (like the 3com ethernet card on this 486 I have here).

  -jm