On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:17:33AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:18:01AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > > This is an attempt to add wol support to xl(4). > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, while I have an xl(4) card to test with none of the > > > > motherboards I have will do WOL with it since they all lack an > > > > on-board WOL connector :( > > > > > > > > So test reports are needed. > > > > Please also check whether WOL is disabled by default. > > > > > > I haven't received any test reports yet. > > > > The (commited) diff has no effect on my onboard xl(4). > > The hardware supports this (BIOS setting checked): > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dvol/en/vol_mt/SETUP.HTM#Wakeup > > %20On%20LAN > > Please elaborate on "no effect". > > Does WOL work at all? Or does it not work at all?
I've done tests with the integrated NIC and one in a PCI slot connected to the WOL connector. WOL does not work in any configuration I've tried. > Can it be enabled from the BIOS but not, independently, from ifconfig? The BIOS has 3 WOL settings: Off, Integrated NIC, WOL Connector. I've configured this according to which card was tested. WOL still did not work. > Can it be disabled via ifconfig even if enabled in the BIOS? I've tried enabling WOL using ifconfig for the PCI NIC and set the BIOS to WOL mainboard connector. WOL did not work. shutdowns were always done with "halt -p" No idea what else I could do... > > I have a similar problem with an on-board vr(4) where tweaking the WOL > configuration registers before reboot shows the registers have changed, > but the changes do not survive a reboot. > I guess the BIOS writes to these registers on boot clobbering whatever > the operating system did before it shut down. This way, WOL works with any > operating system when configured from the BIOS, but the OS cannot configure > it. > > So far I've only seen this behaviour with on-board cards, but not with > cards sitting in PCI slots.
