From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 15:23:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6D616A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8178A43FBF for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mayerale@weihenstephan.org) In-Reply-To: <3FA3A1D6.2050106@papendorf-se.de> References: <3FA3A1D6.2050106@papendorf-se.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: <2DC9B98A-0CC2-11D8-9C5F-000393BE8844@weihenstephan.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Alexander Mayer Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 00:21:53 +0100 To: 510056324034-0001@t-online.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alexander_K=FChn?=) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at informatik.tu-muenchen.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wake-on-lan support? (WOL) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 23:23:48 -0000 Hi, Alexander K=FChn wrote: > powered down. You need to enable it in the PC bios and for some NICs > also in the NIC's BIOS as well (e.g. RTL 8139) using a NIC specific=20 > tool But most drivers in Linux disable WOL per default (on the NIC). It's a=20= common problem: WOL works if I boot into Windows then shutdown. When I=20= shutdown from Linux the PC doesn't wake up. Only a few drivers in Linux=20= 2.4.x (vanilla) provide a kernel option like "enable_wol=3D1", usually=20= you need a kernel patch (if you can find one). Are there similar problems on FreeBSD? Thanks, Alex=