Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:09:55 -0800 From: justin@mac.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Message-ID: <E9E15438-D7E3-11D5-81AF-0003934474AC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200111130242.SAA16894@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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That's cool. I must have recalled incorrectly. Thanks for the
clarification.
Regards,
Justin
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 06:42 , Darryl Okahata wrote:
> 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.
>
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