Besides the "normal" usage of a 5501 like Firewall etc, I am currently testing to use the 5501 as a VDR. So far everything works perfectly but there are three question I like to get at least addressed: 1. ACPI The net5501 does currently not support ACPI. Are there any plans or ideas to get this into the BIOS?
2. Wake-On-Lan As a fallback option I was thinking on WOL. The VIA Ethernet supports this. But the BIOS seems to ignore it until the OS (here Debian) starts. The basic power consumption - OS halted - in the VDR setup is approx. 11W. This is a bit too high to accept it as a Standby mode. Any ideas on this? 3. LOM I got the 5501 from Wim - the famous Belgium distributor. He put a basic information sheet into the box where he said, that entering three plus-signs "+++" one "+" per second would enter the BIOS mode. I am pretty experienced on SUNs LOM Feature, so I guess the same function here. Unfortunately this seems not to work. BIOS is at 1.32i. I know that the net5501 is mainly manufactured for other purposes. But the results from the VDR setup are really exciting so I - and several others I know of - would like to use this setup. Thanks for any thoughts and ideas. Jochen _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
