Re: WOL and 3c59x (3c905c-tx)

[Andrew Morton]

Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> 
> When shutting down my computer with Linux, I cannot wake it up using
> wake-on-LAN, which I can do if I shut it down from WinME or the LILO
> prompt using the power button.
> 
> I see some "interesting" code in 3c59x.c and acpi_set_WOL, and there is
> the following little comment: "AKPM: This kills the 905".
> 
> So, what's up?  Does it break all 905s?  And will not changing the state
> to D3, as a comment a few lines down says, shut the card down, which seems
> to be a bad thing to do in a function called from vortex_probe1...  I know
> this code is currently bypassed, but still, what is this?
> 

The code was broken, so I disabled it.

I
"fixed" WOL in the 2.2.19-pre candidate driver.  It's
at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x.c-2.2.19-pre6-1.gz

I'd really appreciate it if you could test the WOL in
that driver.  Then we can port it into 2.4 and try to
fool Linus into thinking it's a bugfix :)

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