Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:29 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command? Message-ID: <4545E471.9060200@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200610290918.09954.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200610281245.40150.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20061029030745.GA3839@dan.emsphone.com> <200610290918.09954.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:07, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Oct 28), Jonathan Horne said: >>> i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i >>> did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, >>> WOL always worked just fine. >>> >>> apparently, the linux driver for my network card, put the nic in >>> "always off" mode, and in order to be able to WOL later, i have to >>> shut the linux off in "wol g" mode (using ethtool, so it can listen >>> for packets later). even in freebsd now tho, its still not listening >>> for WOL packets. is there something in freebsd i can use to edit the >>> behavior of the driver, to make sure the nic powers down in >>> "wol-listen" mode? >> I didn't even know you could toggle WOL outside of the BIOS. Check >> there, or maybe your NIC's config page (Ctrl-S during bootup for Intel >> nics). > <SNIP> > > so, finally, this brings me back to my os of choice. freebsd is using the > same nic that linux and windows are using, and those drivers are configurable > for wake-yes or wake-no. now i just need to figure out if this setting is > available to be adjusted in freebsd, and if how, how do i speicify it? > A quick google leads me to belive that this isnt supported in FreeBSD currently, I found a patch for 5.3 if_xl [1] and a pr for a patch for if_sis in 7-current as of july 2005 [2] which lead me to some patches for 6.x at [3] so its possible but not committed. hope this helps, Vince [1] http://www.wand.net.nz/~bcj3/420/userguide/remote.php [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83807 [3] http://www.stsp.in-berlin.de/wol/ > cheers, > jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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