Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:26:18 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: justin@mac.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up on lan driver support Message-ID: <200111131726.JAA21758@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:28:48 %2B0100." <20011113082848.A35646@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > WOL only requires a few things of the machine to be woken up:
> >
> > 1. The motherboard must support WOL.
> >
> > 2. The LAN card must support WOL.
> >
> > 3. You must have connected the special WOL cable between the LAN card
> > and the motherboard.
> >
> > 4. You must have enabled WOL on the motherboard.
>
> 5. You must have a power supply that supplies sufficient power on the
> standby power rail to satisfy the needs of the lan card. Not all PSUs
> seem to do that.
Yes, definitely (thanks for the addition!). Many older power
supplies cannot supply enough current on the +5VSB rail to support WOL.
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Darryl Okahata
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