[vortex] WakeOnLan with 3c905C-TX-M

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Ing. Simanek Milan zam wrote:

> Subject: [vortex] WakeOnLan with 3c905C-TX-M
> I am trying to power on my PC using WakeOnLan feature, but the lan card
> does not receive WOL frames. When I power off computer, all leds on the
> card turn off and nothing else happens.

This indicates that the driver didn't leave the card in D3-warm state.

Does the driver at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
      ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/3c59x.c
fix the problem?

> I think the problem is related to the initialisation of the pci
> southbridge (see previous mail)

I believe that can prevent the wake-up signal from waking the machine
up, but you should still see link beat.

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