From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 12 19: 9:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD2237B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:09:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightnin ([65.11.111.111]) by femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011113030945.QGIL26177.femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com@lightnin> for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:09:45 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:09:55 -0800 Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) From: justin@mac.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200111130242.SAA16894@mina.soco.agilent.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.472) 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 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > --- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Men are from Earth. | Women are from Earth. | Deal with it. *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message