Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:48:54 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: #freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <ade45ae90905111548y37a90d9enda3a5bddfadc8878@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <17798633.2121242080310610.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD > system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? > Search the archives. The question of Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while. I typically respond. Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has Wake-on-LAN capabilities. I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. Please search the archives.
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