From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 21:59:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B8E16A402 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outE.internet-mail-service.net (outE.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149F113C44C for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:29:14 -0700 Received: from [10.251.22.38] (nat.ironport.com [63.251.108.100]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314A3125AE3; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <461C08DF.8010201@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:59:59 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <2a41acea0704101439l17ba9347o8b9844416dbb25a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0704101439l17ba9347o8b9844416dbb25a1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: WOL question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:59:58 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: > I am hoping someone here who has more familiarity with the ACPI > code can enlighten me.... > > I have an internal bug filed complaining that FreeBSD disables > wake-on-lan on the hardware. This means that if you boot, say, > Linux, even Knoppix as a quickie, and then shutdown, if the > hardware supports it, it will be left in a state where a magic-packet > wakeup will work. However, even if I boot up a FreeBSD kernel > with NO em driver, and then shutdown, it undoes the WOL setup. > > Now, I would like to have explicit WOL support added into the > em driver, but before I even worry about that I need to understand > where the kernel turns this off without the driver even needed. > > I've looked around at the dev/acpi and arch/acpi code and at > least so far I'm having a hard time getting an adequate picture > to know how it happens. > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I think I heard once that some BIOSes turn it off during the boot cycle somewhere and it is up to the OS to turn it back on. I do know that some BIOSes phuck with the NIC enough to stop IPMI from working during the boot.