Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:59:59 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WOL question Message-ID: <461C08DF.8010201@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0704101439l17ba9347o8b9844416dbb25a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a41acea0704101439l17ba9347o8b9844416dbb25a1@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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