From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 12 10:10:17 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 142871065674 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 10:10:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f216.google.com (mail-fx0-f216.google.com [209.85.220.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C0C8FC1F for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 10:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so3274086fxm.43 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 03:10:15 -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 :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yxI22mZvqHoSbEIcGcnyabX7lyi+X7RCWTpdZ0jODrM=; b=MPNxt6oWJyrIwkiFN5CpKA2Wu0MhSvMIqPoMw9xeDRrZt/qtW3bZfhJOso3Sn93i3S cIYVcE8G3vRWRH23AyS43WmB5UoIpUbK3d0xe93R2xiLVxlHd0RpjESXhXZQ2iCTe72+ qN0K1TGNK2ct35JbOQy5aCxpxRrwtllHCcqfQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CPNO8sgSZZdvh0SALWsp30Lwvx2sHzLLz5pIT16/tgQhPjIPHbbzJWlEsD5pgazOKn gt0Rqc69pPkP32HDmXQReQKu1SqNnSa4TYa5mv3gpBcmTuv0YSeQb2xvtGEOkWtjtMCM 43ccz93ZIUQfLIJax9ywx2vqv+IBYkMUzShWs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.141.68 with SMTP id b4mr605986hba.11.1242123015451; Tue, 12 May 2009 03:10:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:10:15 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750905120310j7b811549xb01cd88ff2481ec4@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Tim Judd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Steele , #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: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:10:17 -0000 On 5/12/09, Tim Judd wrote: > 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. FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul