On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:07:39PM +0200, Edwin Mons wrote: > I currently have one -CURRENT machine, and several 6.2-STABLE machines. For > at least two of them (the -CURRENT and an x86 -STABLE machine) I'd really > like to have WoL support, as these are my workstation and a home server, > both of them really do not need to be on all the time, but I want to be able > to reach them when I need a file from them when I'm elsewhere.
Yes, wake on lan, if used properly, makes computers a bit more friendly to the environment :-) > I usually use either if_em or if_xl chipsets, so I hoped landing this code > in at least -CURRENT (should go there first, I guess) would result in more > chipsets supported ;) There is code for enabling wake on lan in the Linux drivers for both if_xl and if_em cards. See drivers/net/3c59x.c and drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c in the linux source tree. So I don't think adding support for these cards is a problem. Just need to find some time to do it... If anyone has data sheets for these cards I'd like a copy if possible. By the way if anyone has data sheets for if_vr I'd like a copy as well please because there is something the Linux driver does that I do not understand because the code is not obvious enough. Specifically I need to understand what the hell they mean exactly by "patterns for WOL". > > If anyone has a card that does wake on lan after shutdown from Linux > > but not after shutdown from FreeBSD with my patch applied let me know. > > You may need to use the ethtool utility to enable WOL on Linux. > > I don't run Linux on either machine. Perhaps I could do some tests on my > workstation with a CD-based linux distribution. No need to test your cards with Linux since we know now there is code for this in Linux so it should work anyway. -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
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