From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 06:31:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAA716A420 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:31:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2725343D49 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:31:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 91476 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jan 2006 06:30:58 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2006 06:30:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0M6NcCV013731; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:23:39 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <43D324EA.2000208@alphaque.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:23:38 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20051026 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly References: <4dd4cddf0601200822k74ecdafr@mail.gmail.com> <20060120183942.GC3966@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20060120183942.GC3966@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Tournoy , freebsd Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN won't work if FreeBSD/Linux shuts down the system...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:31:02 -0000 On 01/21/06 02:39 David Kelly said the following: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:22:55PM +0000, Martin Tournoy wrote: > >>I'm trying to get WoL working, and actually works quite well as long >>as windows shuts down the system. >>However, when FreeBSD or Linux shuts down my system, it won't work, >>and if I manually turn on the system and shut it down again (even >>before POST is done) WoL will work again(!?!?) >> >>I've tried shutting down my system in every way I could think of, but >>it doesn't seem to matter... >> >>I've been googling for hours on this and didn't get alot wiser, does >>anyone have any experience or solution for this? > > > You ask such a question without saying anything about what NIC you are > using? i dont know if this is related, but i've had this experience: 1. freebsd notebook dies/crashes due to power failure (my bad) 2. a reboot of the notebook comes up fine with the exception of a totally missing bge0 device, Broadcom BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet. nothing i did could find the device including pciconf. 3. reboots with shutdown -r didnt still showed a missing device when the notebook rebooted. 4. shutting down the notebook using ACPI (acpiconf -s 5) and a subsequent reboot brought the device back to life as if nothing had happenned previously. i wonder if there's something in ACPI which caused this behaviour, and could be responsible for the symptoms you're seeing. admittedly, this is a shot in the dark as till today i've no clue why my bge0 device disappeared for a short period of time. agents mulder and scully are investigating. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+