From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 12 18:42:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4778137B405 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42442B3F; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:42:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F3930D; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:42:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id SAA16894; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:42:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111130242.SAA16894@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: justin@mac.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:01:59 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:42:18 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG justin@mac.com wrote: > I think it requires device driver support because it has to be enabled > (at least, that's what the devices I know about require). No, it does not (at least, not for WOL -- you do need APM in order to use "halt -p" to turn off the system, though). It does not require any special driver support on the machine to be woken up, or from the machine that sends the special wake-on-lan packets. I've been using WOL since FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 (well, for a short while, at least, until I did an impressively stupid boneheaded unmentionable that burned out my motherboard's WOL support ;-(). WOL only requires a few things of the machine to be woken up: 1. The motherboard must support WOL. 2. The LAN card must support WOL. 3. You must have connected the special WOL cable between the LAN card and the motherboard. 4. You must have enabled WOL on the motherboard. That's it. Now, you only have to send the special WOL packets to the system to be woken up (someone's already mentioned the software, in another posting, which also does not require any special driver support). I've used both FreeBSD and Windows to send the packets. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message