Re: Does Wake on LAN work with 3C905B-COMBO and Suse 7.3?
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Lutz Bender wrote: > | It's easier to > | debug WOL with a NIC that powers up in WOL mode, rather than a 3c905b > | which requires the OS to boot and run first. > > This indeed soundsmuch better. Perhaps you can tell me some NICs that use the > power-up method? Pretty much everything with WOL more recent than the 905B. The 'B' was one of the earliest WOL designs. Pick up a cheap rtl8139 or ADMtek NIC -- pretty all of the very-low-end NICs use one of rtl8139C, ADMtek AN985 or occasionally the NatSemi DP83815. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex