Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 04:25:40 +0100 From: Elessar <elessar@galgenberg.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mayerale@weihenstephan.org Subject: Re: wake-on-lan support? Message-ID: <20031103042540.05fb37e4.elessar@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <A95B7B8E-0BAE-11D8-B3A0-0003936A36F6@weihenstephan.org> References: <A95B7B8E-0BAE-11D8-B3A0-0003936A36F6@weihenstephan.org>
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--Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_04_25_40_+0100_dpRviI1e=a5s_1Az Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:29:40 +0100 Alexander Mayer <mayerale@weihenstephan.org> wrote: > Hi, > > is wake-on-lan possible on a PC running FreeBSD? I want to boot my > FreeBSD-PC with wake-on-lan. In Linux there is a problem with many > drivers because they disable wake-on-lan. Only a few drivers give the > possibility to enable this feature. What about FreeBSD? > > Alex > Hi I use WOL (sometimes) with freeBSD and ports/net/wol/ Basically, when I am not at home to wake up my desktop via wol from my nat-box. The nat-box is RELENG-4_7 with two fxp (Intel NIC) and the desktop a ASUS CUSL-2 with 933mhz pIII and another fxp running RELENG_4. Other setups may differ. It was some time ago when I used this for the first time, but I can't remember to have turned something on. It just worked ;] Be sure to also check the posting from Alexander Kuehn regarding the hardware issues. Joerg --Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_04_25_40_+0100_dpRviI1e=a5s_1Az Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/pcq8IrY0CTTJX8ARAtm4AJ0UxD44ex84ebju25L14/myodbe0ACdFyYw JtybSSPWb8oahFRDnIc3t9Q= =zMxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_04_25_40_+0100_dpRviI1e=a5s_1Az--
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