
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).
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra