From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  9 Feb 1999 18:49:35 +0000
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] 3c905
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>>> 
>>> he may have a 905b and not realise it's different.
>>> 
>>Very different...  Is _that_ oddity supported?

etherelnk3.c supports the various busmastering modes,
backing off where required from various bugs (eg, in the 595).
i've only tried (buggy) 595 and 3c905 XL,
in both 10 and 100 modes.
i haven't got any 905Bs.
thus booting wasn't a problem, although b.com's driver does need
the change posted here ages ago to set the right
receive threshold value (something like that),
and i might have had to twiddle the media selection
(i certainly made both changes to the file server's driver).

i think the pnic ended up being faster (same machine
and environment) in the trivial test i ran when
i exchanged cards in my home machine.