From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 14:23:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E47F106564A for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f134.google.com (mail-qy0-f134.google.com [209.85.221.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408AD8FC17 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk40 with SMTP id 40so2097311qyk.3 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:23:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=nnxjtH7pxv654KIT+cwSJh/OvREQjj13FPxyFqXugtM=; b=qjm02tTjJHEvEzJPeP+MMAjVqQ6+r3bwQ+lE++o0AO9uw12ieXiigUdyjnmlaUT97R 76V60pnRpNab+De/r7xGIKD4YVSdRYroZgtUbnAvLTJR4sBpmF7cGbaQILzN+RbaKMDC hGxQS6sLfgY3onu2srL/2rtUAfxh/pxffv+04= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aHSP83GkwlA7wR4C9VPag1SMnUMHCrdtwCOUN9d+Am+Ygk95KRPvEA5yMX5jpRref1 Um9GasxNm2kTwwwCbFVHro6/vcwUogBKCK6jOcH/RhQtim0wpNxAQMpl9DQyA7tx1Gbo 91eKIhS+nZuMT7vi/9WmKLNgEBPOpotC705cU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.92.194 with SMTP id s2mr612281vcm.10.1238163813411; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:23:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22742140.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <22742140.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:23:33 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: regis505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wake-up on LAN for Broadcom BCM5721 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:35 -0000 On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:57 AM, regis505 wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Broadcom BCM5721 network adapter and I wonder how I can trigger > the > Wake-up on LAN feature. ifconfig does not report any WOL options. Something > I could add in rc.conf or with sysctl to activate it? I am running > 7.1-STABLE. > > Thanks > > bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=9b > ether **:**:**:**:**:** > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > FreeBSD doesn't have any hooks in the NIC driver(s) (all of them) that enables WOL after the machine shuts down. It is a driver option that enables that functionality and although there were patches written for a few chipsets, nothing was implemented into the OS. Put another way, there is zero support for WOL after you run FreeBSD, since the FreeBSD driver does not include that hook. HTH