
So, the firewall works well. I disconnected the fan, and now it's totally silent. My powermac is loud, but I never realized how noisy the old firewall was.
Now APM and ACPI are kicking me around. The motherboard I bought has 3 onboard RealTek 8139 10/100 ethernet chips; all have the Wake-On-Lan feature. So (and I must admit this is the first time, so why should it work?), I turn the device off, send it the magic packet and...nothing. Hm.
I put this project down for a long time to work on other stuff (nothing of interest to the slashdot crowd; you'd have to go to the forum site for people who clean out their rain gutters and remove old asbestos from their houses).
The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe. -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy