From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 23:49:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B521065671 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EB38FC1A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2214701waf.3 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr11233038way.22.1207007331831; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.15.6 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6004effe0803311648w6c592cf7s2737cffda13707f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:48:51 -1000 From: "Kent Hauser" To: "Jerry McAllister" In-Reply-To: <20080331224536.GC36433@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6293ba970803311236o30d15d86q177b7c20d700546d@mail.gmail.com> <20080331224536.GC36433@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Walker , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:12 -0000 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:09:22PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Walker > > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:37 AM > > > To: Kent Hauser; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x) > > > > > > > > > I would like to know of any other easier ways to do this. > > > > Any network admin worth his salt has an old win98 system tucked > > away that can be used to create bootable dos cd's. > > Don't know much about the value of salt, but the old Win 98 machine > I have around has a dead CD and dead floppy as well. Guess they are > replaceable, but is it worth money and bother? > > I wouldn't be surprised if there are many like that sitting around. > > ////jerry > > > And if your > > really a wizard you have a windows for workgroups 3.11 system > > tucked away as there are devices (notably HP JetDirect print servers) > > that can only be firmware-updated from that platform, plus you > > have a genuine DOS system with an > > EGA card and monitor in inventory, like I do. ;-) I'm sure one of > > these days I'll need it for something... > > > > The ultimate guru's of course, have in addition to this, a trash-80, > > an Apple II, a Commodore PET, and a VAX 11/70 plus the 3-phase power > > to run it - and still remember how to boot all of them.... > > > > Ted > You comments got me to thinking, I have tossed all my old PC/AT, W98, etc systems a while back (along with my old Foghat 8-tracks -- yes I cruised to Fool for the City on 8-track), but I still had a W98SE boot CD -- and amazingly enough it worked. And it recognized my flash drive as B: no problem. So step 1 complete. Now I seem to have run up against a FreeBSD 7.x ACPI bug. Now that WOL is turned on, if I "halt -p", I get the HUB LED to come back on -- but I can't wake the machine. However, if I pull the power on the box & plug it back in, I can WOL the machine fine. Everything is fine when booted in XP. Any thoughts on this one?