Linksys router freezes when I reboot Win95 workstation. WTF?

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

I'm at work, and I'm setting up a PC for a lady who starts work *tomorrow* (doh!). Anyway, the machine is an HP Vectra 5 with a Pentium 200-MMX cpu running Windows 95 OSR2.5. This machine must run Windows 95 for a specific purpose, so no solutions involving a OS upgrade please. Also, it does have the latest BIOS from HP's website.

The NIC is a 3COM 905-TX, Etherlink III XL 10/100 PCI. I've got a Linksys router connected to a wireless 512kb service that all the other machines are using without a hitch (about 10 or so). But everytime I reboot this Vectra, the router quits responding. It won't even respond to a ping. So I unplug it and plug it back in, and everything is wonderful again.

I'm running DHCP on the router, but it doesn't make a difference if I assign an IP or use DHCP on the Vectra, it still stalls out the router. Anyone have any ideas on why the router is getting froze up when I reboot?

TCP/IP 192.168.0.x or DHCP, WINS Disabled, DNS same as all the other machines,

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

I guess you guys are off the hook. I switched out the nationally recognized brand name product (3COM 3C905-TX) for a brand X (SMC 1211 series). The problem vanished. So I don't know for sure what the problem is, but I *could* sell the aforementioned 3COM 3C905-TX for real cheap about now.