I'm not sure what the board is, but probably Intel? Its in a compaq deskpro and the lan chipset is intel 82558. Mandriva assigns an eepro 100 driver to it. The funny thing is, it works well enough to do a Mandriva network install - which is just as well, since no CD in it. And I have three of these I'm trying to get working reliably!

The yellow light. Yes, I think it must be related to wake on lan, but evidently the way its working with mandriva, it would not wake.

We start from the situation where the machine has been shut down from the keyboard. The light goes out. If power to the machine is turned off at the mains, paused, and then turned back on, then the yellow light comes on again. If the machine is then turned on at the power switch and booted, all is well, and the yellow light stays on. However on keyboard shutdown, the yellow light goes off again, and then does not come back on even on reboot. So wake on lan would not work I suppose.

The yellow light seems from the manual to mean 'reception of link pulses' or 'scrambler lock' in 100mbps mode. Something must be happening at software shutdown to cause this not to work any more. Something must be restarted at mains power on to get it up again. But what? I've glanced through the near 300 page manual with no real enlightenment.

Perhaps I should try Debian on the second one, and maybe Windows 2K as well, and see if there's any difference.

Peter

On Saturday 29 Apr 2006 10:47, main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:

My experience of Intel motherboards over the past 5 years is that the ethernet connect light shines when connected to a network even when the PC appears to be off. I'm guessing this helps with Wake On Lan.

Perhaps the Linux driver is telling the ethernet adapter to power down, and then nothing turns it back on again until you cold boot.

What make is your motherboard?

Regards, Tim.