From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 22:49:15 2009 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 65522106566B for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 22:49:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9588FC15 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 22:49:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1850930qwe.7 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 15:49:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=4DqhrQJQyTKx9yKaAKNJA8Cvwv2MIRFFEOfaBzdxJDI=; b=U+q8LKs8p1jauZ49LfYUfze61216iu90lV1OHUApDBENHAVxeRJGN78hxGVp8P5enS +LsuiOR6y+i8n0hAHGuPB1B2vKfGqqonWTc7Q7/IMtfa2xy4Dfymzd9r7brPcYKP9vVV gSpRkxUam4PHkhPnr6JqDzFOr3Djz1J/G080c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=JKT8ix90I76njv1iad3U4Agiu8TBgQHuJ73dP+v8r3PhYVgPTKZohg8PysPDeQSAUi GCyHwkCBfA/AXnpoQ5zkf1rXuuBz2by1UdjboRFnnnFguarTyhHQE3ZrToNwEhMdVQIR wBfgeGKExnCyyorArEO0cKvxGxaZFY9b9nJbI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.96.130 with SMTP id h2mr11983291vcn.21.1242082154196; Mon, 11 May 2009 15:49:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> From: Tim Judd Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:48:54 -0600 Message-ID: To: Peter Steele Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: #freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? 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, 11 May 2009 22:49:15 -0000 On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD > system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? > Search the archives. The question of Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while. I typically respond. Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has Wake-on-LAN capabilities. I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. Please search the archives.