Re: WOL not working with 3Com NIC
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:47:05PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:16:59PM -0500, M E wrote: I am able to get will wake on: magic, when typing ifconfig in FreeNAS (built on FreeBSD); however, I am still unable to wake up the box. I know that xl does not work yet. Hi again, I finally got my development box running again with the help of two guys at uni (got a disk controller and a hard drive), many thanks :) I've just woken up a FreeBSD-7 box with a 3com card successfully. Having hardware to test with really helps. The rxfilter not being configured correctly was what prevented WOL from working with if_xl altogether. Also, I've added support for wake on link status change. This is currently used by if_xl only, but it's easy to add it to the other drivers, too. Test wake on link by unplugging the network cable before the box shuts down, and plug the cable back in - the box should now wake up. Quite a useless feature, but fun anyway :) New patches for RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_7 can be found here: http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-6.2-wol-2007-11-25.diff http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-7-wol-2007-11-25.diff Instructions here: http://www.stsp.name/wol/README.txt If you need other branches, please just try to apply one of the above and sort out the rejects - I have no time to maintain more than those two. There's still lots left to be done, especially additional device support. I'm also planning on getting rid of the secureOn password stuff in ifconfig because few chips support it and clear text passwords aren't really that secure at all. This will also trim the ioctl argument size down from a struct to a simple int. -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0 pgpNZsTK9ympl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: WOL not working with 3Com NIC
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:16:59PM -0500, M E wrote: Hello Stefan, Hello, I'm Cc'ing hackers@ in my reply to your mail so people can overhear this conversation. It would be great to get some help. I am able to get will wake on: magic, when typing ifconfig in FreeNAS (built on FreeBSD); however, I am still unable to wake up the box. I know that xl does not work yet. The driver hears you requesting WOL and internally makes a note to configure WOL at shutdown time. But configuring the device for WOL does not work correctly for some reason. I haven't yet figured out what exactly the problem is, even with looking at the specs. The NIC is a 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX). I've found 3 spare ones of those at uni I could bring home to test with. There have been requests for fxp (Intel) support, too, and by accident I also found one of those cards at uni in a spare server no one was using. But the hard disk in my development box is dying, I have to get it replaced. And my desktop got a new motherboard a while ago. The old one had bad capacitors, it was totally unstable so I returned it. I only later realised that the new one has no WOL connector! Doh! So now I finally have some cards, but no hardware to use them with. It used to be the other way around for like a year or more. Meh :-/ I need to find some time to buy a disk and set up my dev box again before I can continue working on this. Do you have any sugestions? My free time is scarce at the moment. More eyes and brains to throw at the problem would really, really help. There are data sheets for 3com cards at http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/3Com/ If someone found something obviously wrong in the xl_enable_wol() routine it would help an awful lot. I already went over it twice but I cannot find the error. It could also be something else the driver is doing behind my back that prevents WOL from working. I'm not experienced enough in device drivers to really understand all the subtleties of the whole thing. For those who don't know, the WOL patch is here: http://stsp.name/wol/ -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0 pgpOKC0DxOzZr.pgp Description: PGP signature
