[vortex] A Question on 3c95x driver and Wake-on-LAN

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Pere Urbón Bayes wrote:

> For some diferent reasons the ethernet card that I would wake have
> no IP address, but it's up.

What exactly do you mean by "it's up" ? What flags does ifconfig
report for this card (UP, RUNNING, etc.) ?

> If I configure the option enable_wol=1 into the /etc/modprobe.conf,
> the machine to work with WOL (BIOS, wire into the motherboard,
> etc...) and then stop the computer with an init 0 command the card
> will not be on, this happen only if the interface that I would wake
> up have no IP, but If it have an IP the proces works correctly.

My guess is that the driver function for shutting down the card the
card is not called and does not get to set the card into the proper
power mode. When you set an IP, the function is called and the proper
power mode is set.

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Bogdan Costescu

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