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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