From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 23:04:20 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 B23FD106566B for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 23:04:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from exprod7og114.obsmtp.com (exprod7og114.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E1398FC1D for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 23:04:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from source ([209.85.146.177]) by exprod7ob114.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKSgiu82uMxJkW+/WzGDNMJA0TWlS1+ypo@postini.com; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:20 PDT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2054667waf.20 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.106.13 with SMTP id e13mr6221156wac.87.1242083059663; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([76.231.178.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm6764290wag.18.2009.05.11.16.04.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:03:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Steele To: Tim Judd Message-ID: <19092079.2261242083020759.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 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 23:04:21 -0000 > 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.