On 19/04/2011, at 8:57 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:03:54AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Thanks. I'll have to take another look at the FreeBSD driver so.
>
> Can you check whether WOL works with FreeBSD?
>

For the archives/if anyone is following this: I have dug out an i386 Dell with
an on-board xl card.

FreeBSD 8.2 WOL works; the changes in OpenBSD so far do not.

Machine remotely poked with arp -W <mac>

Thanks.

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