Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:28:48 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: justin@mac.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Message-ID: <20011113082848.A35646@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200111130242.SAA16894@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:42:18PM -0800 References: <200111130242.SAA16894@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:42:18PM -0800, 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. 5. You must have a power supply that supplies sufficient power on the standby power rail to satisfy the needs of the lan card. Not all PSUs seem to do that. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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