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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:52:21 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
To:        Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: startup options
Message-ID:  <48A5FA95.2000902@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080815214021.GA1620@ted.stsp.name>
References:  <48A5EBF6.5060908@telenix.org> <48A5EE69.7030504@unsane.co.uk> <20080815214021.GA1620@ted.stsp.name>

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Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>   
>> Chuck Robey wrote:
>>     
>>> I was wondering if it was possible, with a machine that has about 2
>>> year old
>>> dual AMD64 processors and an up-to-date AMI BIOS, to get the machine
>>> to be able
>>> to start up from a power shutdown, after some sort of a network signal?
>>>
>>> If it might be possible, could you maybe put me onto the path of
>>> whatever info
>>> there might be on that subject?
>>>       
>> Wake on LAN is I believe a work in progress.
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan
>> its not an area I have much knowledge of though so other might be able
>> to help more.
>>     
>
> That page pretty much summarises the state of affairs, yes.
>
> Basically, you need a VIA-based ethernet card card (vr driver)
> and -CURRENT, or a vr card with 7.0 and patches from here:
> http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-8-CURRENT-wol-backported-to-7.0/
> All of those. Except the patch for pxe.c, that's there by accident.
>
> If you don't have a vr card, you will likely need to do some
> hacking. Follow the links from the wiki page for more information.
>
>   
trouble% cd sys/dev/
trouble% grep -l IFCAP_WOL */*.c
age/if_age.c
jme/if_jme.c
re/if_re.c
stge/if_stge.c
vr/if_vr.c

So 5 drivers right now support WOL.  Jack said em had support a while 
back but he seems to have not hooked it up.

    Sam




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