Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:03:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: #freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19092079.2261242083020759.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90905111548y37a90d9enda3a5bddfadc8878@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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. I did do a search before posting and I wasn't very encouraged by what I found. You've confirmed my findings, unfortunately.
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