Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:01:59 -0800 From: justin@mac.com To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Message-ID: <DFBF312B-D708-11D5-98A7-0003934474AC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011112103651.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 04:06 , Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 11-Nov-2001 matt wrote:
>> Hi, guys, is there any wake up on lan driver support
>> available in the NIC driver tree? or if any one have any
>> pointers on this?
>
> I didn't think this was a driver issue?
> ie the main part is the crafting of the magic packet to wake the card
> up.
The technology is explained on a number of websites; here's one I found
just now:
http://www.networking.ibm.com/eji/ejiwake.html
I think it requires device driver support because it has to be enabled
(at least, that's what the devices I know about require).
Regards,
Justin
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