Vectra VLi8 Wake-on-lan and linux

Hi,
I picked up 5 VLi8 boxes cheap, and am using them for a small
development environment. I don't keep them all turned all the time, but
would like to be able to start them with wake-on-lan when I decide to do
some development. The installed operating system on the boxes is RHAS 4.


I have tried everything to get WoL working for the built-in
3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL, without success. I have enabled
network starting in the BIOS. I have tried to modify the device's PCI
registers directly to set the interface into S3 mode, but absolutely no
success. I tried both the FreeBSD wol port, and Donald Becker's wol
program to send magic packets to the machine's mac address. Nothing
works. I am on a single subnet, with an 8-port 100Mbps D-Link switch.


AFAIK, wol for the VLi8's was designed to be administered with "HP Top
Tools", which was discontinued in 2002...


Any relevant tips would be greatly appreciated.


--
mike

On the seventh day, Mike Jackson wrote...

> I have tried everything to get WoL working for the built-in
> 3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL, without success. I have enabled
> network starting in the BIOS. I have tried to modify the device's PCI
> registers directly to set the interface into S3 mode, but absolutely no
> success. I tried both the FreeBSD wol port, and Donald Becker's wol
> program to send magic packets to the machine's mac address. Nothing
> works. I am on a single subnet, with an 8-port 100Mbps D-Link switch.
>
>
> AFAIK, wol for the VLi8's was designed to be administered with "HP Top
> Tools", which was discontinued in 2002...
>
>
> Any relevant tips would be greatly appreciated.

is the 3Com card onboard or a separate PCI card? If the latter, you need a
WOL cable.

The way how it works: power on the PCs, run the shutdown -h now command, so
that the PCs will power off automatically. It is only then, that you can
wake up the PCs using standard wake-up tools.

HTH

--
mit freundlichen Grüßen/with kind regards
Christian Dürrhauer, Institute of Geography, FU Berlin

Does anyone REALLY read these stupid quotes?

Christian Dürrhauer wrote:

> is the 3Com card onboard or a separate PCI card? If the latter, you need a
> WOL cable.

It's an onboard card.

> The way how it works: power on the PCs, run the shutdown -h now command, so
> that the PCs will power off automatically. It is only then, that you can
> wake up the PCs using standard wake-up tools.

This is how I have shut them down. Still, no luck.

I have read (somewhere) that the 3c59x driver on linux might not be
setting the S3 mode on the card before unloading (and it doesn't allow
you to set it manually, either). If the mode doesn't get set, then WOL
doesn't work, from what I understand.

Perhaps I need to look at the 3c59x module's source code and try to make
a patch.

--
mike