Subject: Re: Help! 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible)
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/13/2001 20:57:04
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote:
> My previous PC had a    built-in Ethernet port that Windows98 identified as 
> "3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX 
> Compatible)".  My current PC has a built-in Ethernet port that WindowsME 
> identifies as "3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX 
> Compatible)".
> 
> With the old PC (a Dell XPS T600) I could run NetBSD 1.5 and get the 
> network card to function.  With the new PC (a Dell Dimension 8100) the 
> networking is hit or miss.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Does it work after a power on, and doesn't work after booting windows ?
Windows drivers sometime to something to the board which makes it behave
differently.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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