Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:10:15 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>, #freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3a142e750905120310j7b811549xb01cd88ff2481ec4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90905111548y37a90d9enda3a5bddfadc8878@mail.gmail.com> References: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <ade45ae90905111548y37a90d9enda3a5bddfadc8878@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/12/09, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD >> system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? >> > > Search the archives. The question of Wake-on-LAN has been around for a > while. I typically respond. > > Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts > the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has > no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has > Wake-on-LAN capabilities. FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel > provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. > > Please search the archives. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul
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