In message <9011A52E011ED311B4280004AC1BA6156D51A0@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu
>, David Woyciesjes writes:
> That's news to me. I personally have never ran into that, but
>wierder things do happen... Did that problem happen to you? Did you try
>booting to only DOS and using the 3Com 3c5x9.exe config program?

Yes, it did indeed happen to me.  Note that I said "905", not "509" 
(and a curse on 3Com for that piece of numerological confusion!).
See PR #8921


  --Steve Bellovin