On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:36:44 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:24 -0500 > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Patches are in order of severity. 1-3 are bug fixes, 4 is a cleanup > > > of the power state code, and 5 adds wake on lan support. > > > > > > IMHO, it is bad security policy to allow wake on lan to enabled by > > > default. > > > The sky2 driver doesn't do WOL until enabled with ethtool. > > > > While in general I agree with you on the security principle, this seems > > like it might break working setups. > > > > WOL is a partnership between the motherboard and NIC. The motherboard > > must support WOL, or its useless. And since the motherboard must > > support WOL, it normally has an on/off switch in BIOS. > > > > As such, you're overriding the admin's chosen BIOS setting here. > > > > Jeff > > But there is no way to read the BIOS settings. > > If BIOS was being smart enough to actually, setup the chip, then I can > look at chip registers on startup and see if it is enabled there.
Some computers even don't have such a BIOS settings (like my Mac mini). Btw., I just built 2.6.20-rc3 with patches 4 and 5 and wake on LAN now works. Thanks for your work. Regards, Tino - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
