Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:40:21 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Subject: Re: startup options Message-ID: <20080815214021.GA1620@ted.stsp.name> In-Reply-To: <48A5EE69.7030504@unsane.co.uk> References: <48A5EBF6.5060908@telenix.org> <48A5EE69.7030504@unsane.co.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > I was wondering if it was possible, with a machine that has about 2 > > year old > > dual AMD64 processors and an up-to-date AMI BIOS, to get the machine > > to be able > > to start up from a power shutdown, after some sort of a network signal? > > > > If it might be possible, could you maybe put me onto the path of > > whatever info > > there might be on that subject? > Wake on LAN is I believe a work in progress. > http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan > its not an area I have much knowledge of though so other might be able > to help more. That page pretty much summarises the state of affairs, yes. Basically, you need a VIA-based ethernet card card (vr driver) and -CURRENT, or a vr card with 7.0 and patches from here: http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-8-CURRENT-wol-backported-to-7.0/ All of those. Except the patch for pxe.c, that's there by accident. If you don't have a vr card, you will likely need to do some hacking. Follow the links from the wiki page for more information. Stefan
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