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Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 16:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
To:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
Cc:        #freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19092079.2261242083020759.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90905111548y37a90d9enda3a5bddfadc8878@mail.gmail.com>

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> 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. 

I did do a search before posting and I wasn't very encouraged by what I found. You've confirmed my findings, unfortunately. 




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