Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I was wondering if it was possible, with a machine that has about 2
year old
dual AMD64 processors and an up-to-date AMI BIOS, to get the machine
to be able
to start up from a power shutdown, after some sort of a network signal?
If it might be possible, could you maybe put me onto the path of
whatever info
there might be on that subject?
Wake on LAN is I believe a work in progress.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan
its not an area I have much knowledge of though so other might be able
to help more.
That page pretty much summarises the state of affairs, yes.
Basically, you need a VIA-based ethernet card card (vr driver)
and -CURRENT, or a vr card with 7.0 and patches from here:
http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-8-CURRENT-wol-backported-to-7.0/
All of those. Except the patch for pxe.c, that's there by accident.
If you don't have a vr card, you will likely need to do some
hacking. Follow the links from the wiki page for more information.
trouble% cd sys/dev/
trouble% grep -l IFCAP_WOL */*.c
age/if_age.c
jme/if_jme.c
re/if_re.c
stge/if_stge.c
vr/if_vr.c
So 5 drivers right now support WOL. Jack said em had support a while
back but he seems to have not hooked it up.
Sam
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